Milliken Bonds later served as the Leader of Community Development for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Milliken Bonds earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.

[4] Bonds was part of a multi-agency team that worked to obtain $30 million for North Carolina's Criminal Justice Information Network.

[6] She led the campaign, as chief strategist, for Bill Faison when he ran in the 2012 North Carolina gubernatorial election.

[11][3][12] She is a member of the Junior League and, as of 2023, serves as the Advisory Board Chair for the Beta Rho Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta at Duke University.