# 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.

## Alumnae and alumni

* Janus Adams - journalist and talk show host
* Laurie Anderson - performance artist and musician
* John Bischoff - musician
* Kevin Blechdom - musician
* Renel Brooks-Moon - voice of the San Francisco Giants, first black baseball announcer
* Trisha Brown - choreographer
* Dave Brubeck - musician and composer
* Teresa Blankmeyer Burke - philosopher and bioethicist
* Alice Sudduth Byerly (1855–1904) - temperance activist
* Peggie Castle - actress
* Sharon Cheslow - musician and artist
* King Lan Chew - dancer
* Maya Chinchilla - poet
* Katherine Choy - ceramicist
* Marika Cifor - professor at University of Washington Information School.
* Martha Fuller Clark - New Hampshire State Senator
* Sofia Coppola - director
* Elizabeth Crow (1968, B.A.) - editor and journalist
* Eunice Prieto Damron - ceramic artist
* Olivia de Havilland - actress
* Vaughn De Leath
* Paul DeMarinis - artist, musician, composer
* Rosanna Castrillo Diaz - artist
* March Fong Eu - politician
* Claire Falkenstein - sculptor, painter, print-maker and jewelry designer known for her large-scale abstract metal and glass sculptures
* Molissa Fenley - modern dancer
* 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
* Helen Gilbert - artist
* April Catherine Glaspie - diplomat, United States Ambassador to Iraq during the Gulf War
* Ben Goldberg - composer and clarinetist
* Michelle Cruz Gonzalez - musician, author
* Beate Sirota Gordon - contributing author, as staff to Douglas MacArthur, of Japanese Constitution
* Peter Gordon - composer
* Ariel Gore - author
* Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson - composer
* Holly Herndon - composer, musician, and sound artist
* Barbara Higbie - musician and composer
* 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
* 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
* May Lee - CNN correspondent
* Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead bassist
* 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
* Jerry Martin - composer
* Miya Masaoka - musician and composer
* Billie June McCaskill - botanist
* Siobhon McManus - teacher and activist
* Constance Money - actress
* Elizabeth Murray - painter and MacArthur Fellow
* Dasha Nekrasova - actress
* Amy X. Neuburg - musician and composer
* 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
* 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
* Dana Reason - composer and musician
* Gino Robair - composer and percussionist
* Steve Reich - composer
* Wendy Reid - composer and violinist
* Marc Anthony Richardson - novelist
* Manuel Rocha Iturbide - composer and sound artist
* Ana Roxanne - musician and singer
* Ananya Roy - professor of urban studies at UC Berkeley
* Ann Sandifur, composer
* Mia Satya (aka Mia Tu Mutch), community organizer and activist
* 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
* Candace Vogler - philosopher
* Katharine Mulky Warne - composer
* Gordon Watson - pianist
* William Winant - percussionist
* Betty Ann Wong - composer
* Hsiung-Zee Wong - composer and musician
* Jade Snow Wong - author and artist
* Connie Young Yu - author, historian, and lecturer

## Faculty

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

## Trustees

* Albert M. Bender
* Ethel Moore (1872-1920), trustee, elected in 1915
* Milton H. Myrick - founding trustee, 1875