Lillian F. Mills is an American accountant and the first female dean of the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business.
[1][2] Mills completed bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting at the University of Florida in 1980 and 1981, respectively,[3] before moving to the University of Michigan to earn a doctorate in the subject, where she was advised by Joel Slemrod and published the dissertation Essays in Corporate Tax Compliance and Financial Reporting in 1996.
[4] She was a research fellow at the United States Department of the Treasury and worked as a certified public accountant for two firms from 1981 to 1989 before joining the University of Arizona faculty in 1997.
She taught at UArizona until 2005, and accepted a teaching position at the University of Texas at Austin the following academic year.
[9] Mill's lasting impact on the accounting profession will be "the influence she has had on generations of tax scholars.