Lillian F. Mills is Dean of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a committed strategic leader, a top policy-relevant tax scholar, and an award-winning educator. Following her BS and MS at the University of Florida, she served Deloitte and PwC from 1981 to 1989. After her PhD at the University of Michigan, Mills served The University of Arizona from 1997 to 2005. She was the 2005 Surrey Fellow in the US Office of Tax Analysis and consulted to the IRS for two decades. She chaired the Accounting Department, ranked #1 by US News for more than 15 years, and served as an Editor for both The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research. She received the prestigious 2023 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, Deloitte Wildman Medal, and American Taxation Association 2014 EY Sommerfeld Outstanding Educator Award from the American Accounting Association; McCombs’ Career Research Award; and McCombs’ Undergraduate Amplify Award for Inclusive Classrooms. Lillian and Jim enjoy visiting their children and grandchildren in MI, NJ, OH and Mexico.