Linda G. Mills serves as Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and University Life.

As Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and University Life, Linda G. Mills is responsible for: (1) undergraduate academic planning and the overall undergraduate experience; and (2) faculty and student academic programming beyond the classroom. Topics in her 'University Life' portfolio include health and mental health policy and programming, and residential education.

Dr. Mills is a Professor of Social Work and an Affiliated Professor of Law. In her recent work, Mills challenges current paradigms of domestic abuse and develops a new theory and practice, based on empirical research, for rethinking how we react to violence in intimate relationships. This challenge was published in Insult to Injury: Rethinking Our Response to Intimate Abuse (Princeton University, 2003). Mills' other publications include: "Fighting for child custody when domestic violence is at issue: A survey of state laws and a call for more research" (with Amy Levin) published in Social Work in 2003, "The law of white spaces: Race, culture, and legal education" (with Peter Goodrich) published in Journal of Legal Education in 2001, "Killing Her Softly: Intimate Abuse and the Violence of State Intervention", published in Harvard Law Review in 1999, and A Penchant for Prejudice: Unraveling Bias in Judicial Decision Making (University of Michigan Press, 1999).

Dr. Mills received a B.A. from the University of California (Irvine), an M.S.W. from San Francisco State University, a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University.