Barry Mills

Barry Mills is the president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, a position he has held since 2001. Mills, who was born in Providence, Rhode Island, is a 1972 Bowdoin graduate and 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.