Barry Mills
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Barry Mills is the president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, a position he has held since 2001.
Barry Mills was born in Warwick, Rhode Island and is a 1972 Bowdoin College graduate. He holds a Ph.D. in biology from Syracuse University (1976) and a J.D. from Columbia Law School (1979).
Prior to assuming the Bowdoin College presidency, Mills was a partner at the Manhattan law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. He follows Samuel Harris (1867-71), Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1871-83), Kenneth C.M. Sills (1918-52), and Roger Howell, Jr. (1969-78) as the fifth alumnus of Bowdoin to serve as president of the College.
In June 2006, Mills was elected to the board of Lexicon Genetics.
He is married and has three sons named Will, Henry, and George.
