She graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine in 1976, worked in Kladovo in 1977–78, and then moved to Požarevac, where she was head of general medical service at the health centre before entering political life in 1994.
[1] Milićević was appointed as health minister in the first government of Mirko Marjanović on 18 March 1994, at a time when Serbia was facing a variety of challenges against the backdrop of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.
In October 1994, she remarked that the easing of international sanctions against Yugoslavia was reducing shortages of medical supplies, saying, "the health institutions in Serbia at present have heating fuel enough for a month or two, and some have sufficient quantities to last them through the winter.
[6] The JUL contested the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election as a junior partner in an electoral coalition led by the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS).
[10][11] In February 1999, Serbian authorities seized control of the Yugoslavian unit of ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc. Milan Panić, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, described the move as "theft of a grand order."
In late February, she ordered all medical facilities in Serbia to prepare for war and to send home those patients who did not require continued hospital treatment.
"[17] After the conclusion of the bombing campaign, Milićević and another Serbian cabinet minister led the first convoy of Kosovo Serb refugees back to Pristina.
[18] She later said that medical conditions in Kosovo were falling to disastrous levels, charging that in several jurisdictions Serbian health workers had been replaced by ethnic Albanians with no experience in the field.
[22] Milićević was herself a candidate for the City Assembly of Belgrade in the concurrent 2000 Serbian local elections, losing to future mayor Nenad Bogdanović in Stari Grad's second division.