Janet Trafton Mills was sworn in as the 75th Governor of Maine on January 2, 2019, the first woman to hold this role. The voters of Maine re-elected her as governor in 2022. 

Governor Mills was born in Farmington, Maine, which she still calls home today, and is the daughter of a high school English teacher and U.S. Attorney for Maine. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the University of Maine School of Law. In 1985, she married the love of her life, her husband, Stan Kuklinski, a widower with five daughters aged four to sixteen. She is now the proud grandmother to three grandsons and two granddaughters. Stan passed away in 2014.

She first entered public service as an Assistant Attorney General, where she prosecuted homicides and other major crimes. In 1978, she co-founded the Maine Women’s Lobby to advocate for abused women. She later was elected as the first woman District Attorney in New England. She won election to the Maine House of Representatives in 2002. She was elected by her legislative colleagues as Attorney General of Maine in 2008, the first and only woman to hold the job. 

Over her two terms in office, she has expanded health care to more than 100,000 Maine people, fully funded schools for the first time in Maine history, made school meals free for all Maine school children, raised the minimum teacher salary, delivered free community college, provided significant tax relief for Maine people, and presided over a period of economic growth in Maine that outpaced many states.

As governor, she is fighting to see that every Maine person has affordable, high-quality health care, that Maine has a strong economy with good-paying jobs in every part of the state, that every Maine child has access to a world-class education, and that Maine is a place where families can put down roots and raise their kids.