List of Mills College people

The following is a partial list of notable Mills College Alumnae. It includes alumnae, professors, and others associated with Mills College.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Alumnae and alumni

Main category: Mills College alumni

• Janus Adams - journalist and talk show host ^[1]
• Laurie Anderson - performance artist and musician ^[2]
• John Bischoff - musician ^[3]
• Kevin Blechdom - musician ^[4]
• Renel Brooks-Moon - voice of the San Francisco Giants, first black baseball announcer ^[5]
• Trisha Brown - choreographer ^[5]
• Dave Brubeck - musician and composer ^[5]
• Teresa Blankmeyer Burke - philosopher and bioethicist ^[5]
• Alice Sudduth Byerly (1855–1904) - temperance activist ^[6]
• Peggie Castle - actress ^[7]
• Sharon Cheslow - musician and artist
• King Lan Chew - dancer
• Maya Chinchilla - poet
• Katherine Choy - ceramicist ^[8]
• Marika Cifor - professor at University of Washington Information School.
• Martha Fuller Clark - New Hampshire State Senator
• Sofia Coppola - director ^[9]
• Elizabeth Crow (1968, B.A.) - editor and journalist ^[10]
• Eunice Prieto Damron - ceramic artist
• Olivia de Havilland - actress ^[11]
• Vaughn De Leath
• Paul DeMarinis - artist, musician, composer
• Rosanna Castrillo Diaz - artist
• March Fong Eu - politician ^[5]
• Claire Falkenstein - sculptor, painter, print-maker and jewelry designer known for her large-scale abstract metal and glass sculptures
• Molissa Fenley - modern dancer ^[5]
• Jim Ferguson - guitarist and composer
• Guillermo Galindo composer/ sound artist
• Noah Georgeson - musician and producer
• Leah Gerber - Professor of Conservation Science at Arizona State University ^[12]
• Helen Gilbert - artist ^[13]
• April Catherine Glaspie - diplomat, United States Ambassador to Iraq during the Gulf War ^[5]
• Ben Goldberg - composer and clarinetist
• Michelle Cruz Gonzalez - musician, author
• Beate Sirota Gordon - contributing author, as staff to Douglas MacArthur, of Japanese Constitution ^[5]
• Peter Gordon - composer
• Ariel Gore - author ^[5]
• Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson - composer
• Holly Herndon - composer, musician, and sound artist ^[14]
• Barbara Higbie - musician and composer ^[15]
• Claire Giannini Hoffman - first woman to serve on the boards of Bank of America and Sears, Roebuck & Company
• Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner - Marshallese poet and climate change activist ^[16]
• Snatam Kaur - musician and activist
• Bevin Kelley - musician
• Nia King - art activist, multimedia journalist, podcaster, public speaker, and zine maker
• Ron Kuivila - musician and sound artist
• Michael Land - head of LucasArts sound department
• Dorianne Laux - award-winning poet
• Barbara Lee - U.S. Representative from California's 12th congressional district ^[5]
• May Lee - CNN correspondent ^[11]
• Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead bassist ^[11]
• Cheena Marie Lo - poet
• Charmian London - second wife and biographer of Jack London
• Jeffrey Luck Lucas - musician and composer
• Megan March - musician, visual artist
• Micheline Aharonian Marcom - novelist ^[17]
• Jerry Martin - composer
• Miya Masaoka - musician and composer
• Billie June McCaskill - botanist ^[18]
• Siobhon McManus - teacher and activist
• Stacey Milbern - disability rights activist
• Constance Money - actress
• Elizabeth Murray - painter and MacArthur Fellow ^[5]
• Dasha Nekrasova - actress
• Amy X. Neuburg - musician and composer ^[11]
• Joanna Newsom - musician
• Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina - writer
• Margaret Nielsen - New Zealand pianist and piano teacher
• Margaret Saunders Ott - pianist and music educator
• Diana L. Paxson - author
• Maggi Payne - composer and musician ^[19]
• Daniella Pineda
• Dan Plonsey - saxophonist
• Johanna Poethig – visual, public and performance artist
• Dixy Lee Ray - Governor of Washington and chair of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission ^[5]
• Dana Reason - composer and musician
• Gino Robair - composer and percussionist
• Steve Reich - composer ^[5]
• Wendy Reid - composer and violinist
• Marc Anthony Richardson - novelist ^[20]
• Manuel Rocha Iturbide - composer and sound artist
• Ana Roxanne - musician and singer
• Ananya Roy - professor of urban studies at UC Berkeley ^[21]
• Ann Sandifur, composer
• Mia Satya (aka Mia Tu Mutch), community organizer and activist ^[22]
• Lateefah Simon - U.S. Representative from California's 12th congressional district
• Beate Sirota - helped write the Japanese constitution
• Irma Tam Soong - historian
• Morton Subotnick - composer
• Michèle Taylor - U.S. Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council
• Grace Vamos - composer and cellist
• Dana Vespoli - pornographic actress ^[23]
• Candace Vogler - philosopher
• Katharine Mulky Warne - composer
• Gordon Watson - pianist ^[11]
• William Winant - percussionist
• Betty Ann Wong - composer
• Hsiung-Zee Wong - composer and musician ^[11]
• Jade Snow Wong - author and artist ^[5]
• Connie Young Yu - author, historian, and lecturer ^[11]

Faculty

Main category: Mills College faculty

• Robert Ashley ^[11]
• Fred Uhl Ball
• Mary Lathrop Benton
• Arthur Berger
• Luciano Berio ^[11]
• John Bischoff ^[3]
• Chana Bloch
• Lenore Blum
• Anthony Braxton ^[11]
• Domenico Brescia
• Anna Cox Brinton
• Chris Brown ^[24]
• Dave Brubeck ^[11]
• John Cage ^[11]
• Alvin Curran ^[11]
• Delaine Eastin
• Hettie Belle Ege
• Fred Frith
• Lou Harrison / Bill Colvig ^[11]
• Joan Jeanrenaud ^[25]
• Congresswoman Barbara Lee
• George E. Lewis
• Yiyun Li
• Hung Liu
• Ajuan Mance ^[26]
• R. Wood Massi ^{[27] [28]}
• Helene Mayer (1910–1953) - German and American Olympic champion fencer
• Darius Milhaud ^[11]
• Roscoe Mitchell
• Diana O'Hehir
• Pauline Oliveros ^[11]
• Kathleen Parlow
• Roi Partridge
• Maggi Payne ^[19]
• Elizabeth Marie Pope
• Stephen Ratcliffe
• Wendy Reid
• Terry Riley ^[11]
• David Rosenboom
• Moira Roth
• Dean Rusk ^[11]
• Diana E.H. Russell
• Pierre Salinger
• Kirsten Saxton
• Robert Sheff
• Laetitia Sonami
• Glenn Spearman
• Ellen Spertus ^[29]
• Homer Sprague ^[11]
• Zvezdelina Stankova ^[11]
• Susan Stryker ^[30]
• Morton Subotnick
• Grace Vamos
• Catherine Wagner ^[11]
• William Winant
• Laura Weinbach

Trustees

• Albert M. Bender
• Ethel Moore (1872-1920), trustee, elected in 1915
• Milton H. Myrick - founding trustee, 1875 ^[31]

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