Members of the Board of Trustees of Mills College serve as fiduciaries of the College in overseeing institutional affairs in accordance with the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the College, periodic statements of mission, and institutional plans. The board works in strategic partnership with the president of the College, and each trustee brings individual expertise, experience, wisdom, and ideas about the wider world to all board deliberations.
Community participation in board deliberations is assured through the structure of working committees of the board. There are 12 standing committees of the board: Advancement, Audit, Campus Planning, Committee on Trustees, Educational Policies, Enrollment and Financial Aid, Executive, Executive Compensation, Finance, Investment, Presidential Assessment, and Student Life. The Executive Committee of the board includes the following trustees: Katie Sanborn (board chair), Karen May (board vice chair), Beth Hillman (College president), Eric Roberts (finance committee chair), Alexandra Moses, and Marilyn Schuster.
This year (2017–18) the Board of Trustees of Mills College is composed of 32 voting members, including three trustees emeritus, three alumnae trustees, two recent graduate trustees, the College president, and the president of the Alumnae Association of Mills College (AAMC). There are also six honorary trustees (non-voting).
The Board of Trustees holds regular meetings in October, February, and May of each fiscal year. Standing committees meet off-cycle on an as-needed basis. Trustees generally serve three-year terms and may be nominated to serve a maximum of three consecutive terms for a total of nine years of service.
Founder and CEO, bit-x-bit LLC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Housing Consultant & Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Oakland, California
Community Volunteer
Honorary Trustee
Tiburon, California
Founding Partner and Chairman, Chong Partners Architecture
Lafayette, California
Retired Founder and CEO, G2 Insurance Services
Palm Springs, California
Retired Investment Officer, Citicorp-Citibank
Honorary Trustee
San Francisco, California
Anthropologist, Choreographer/Performer
Castro Valley, California
Social Justice Advocate
Sammamish, Washington
Owner and President, Dougco
Lafayette, California
New Rochelle, New York
Operations Area Management, Amazon
Livermore, California
Retired Attorney
Honolulu, Hawaii
Associate General Counsel–Real Estate, Apple Inc.
Honorary Trustee
Monte Sereno, California
Attorney
Piedmont, California
President, Mills College
Oakland, California
Executive Career Coach and Consultant
Hong Kong
Retired Founder, CEO and Chairman, Business Wire
Honorary Trustee
Menlo Park, California
Mills College Board of Trustees, Vice Chair
Vice President for People Development, Google Inc.
Kentfield, California
Retired President, Datex Technologies, Inc.
San Francisco, California
Painter
Tiburon, California
President, Little Flock Children’s Homes
Oakland, California
Attorney, Caplin and Drysdale, Chtd.
Washington, DC
Managing Director, Magna Marine
Athens, Greece
Civic, Community and School Volunteer
Chicago, Illinois
Artist
Chicago, Illinois
Director of Forensic Accounting Services, Morrison and Foerster LLP
Tiburon, California
Mills College Board of Trustees, Chair
Director of Editorial Services, OTR Global LLC
El Granada, California
Investment Professional
San Francisco, California
Professor Emerita, Smith College
Oakland, California
Founder, Springs and Associates, PC
Honorary Trustee
Naples, Florida
Independent Higher Education Consultant
San Francisco, California
Owner, ComCon
San Francisco, California
Retired Vice President and Portfolio Manager
Orinda, California
Retired, Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Honorary Trustee
Oakland, California
Retired Investment Manager
Moraga, California
CEO & Executive Board Chair, Educents
San Francisco, California
Professor Emerita, University of California Berkeley
Kensington, California
Marketing and Merchandising Consultant
San Francisco, California