As counselor and chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills serves Clinton as a special advisor on major foreign policy challenges and provides guidance to department bureaus with respect to such matters. Currently, Mills is leading the department’s interagency global hunger and food security initiative and diplomacy and development efforts in Haiti. As chief of staff, she manages the Secretary’s staff and provides policy and managerial support in administering operations of the department.

From 2002 to 2009, Mills served as senior vice president at New York University. From 1999 to 2001, she was senior vice president for Corporate Policy and Public Programming at Oxygen Media, where she oversaw public policy, communications and philanthropic and community initiatives; she also co-directed Oxygen's legal and political programming.

Prior to joining Oxygen, Mills was deputy counsel to the president at the White House. She received her Juris Doctor degree in 1990 from Stanford Law School, where she was elected to the Stanford Law Review. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

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