Former Northern Ontario Business publisher Patricia Mills has been named chancellor of Huntington University in Sudbury.
She is the current president of the NEO Kids
Foundation and will be officially installed in the role during a
convocation ceremony to be held at a later date.
Mills was also
publisher of Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal, Northern Ontario
Medical Journal, and the Sudbury Living Magazine Group. She was also
founder of the Influential Women of Northern Ontario Awards program.
“Patricia Mills is among Greater Sudbury’s most influential and accomplished community builders,” said Mary-Liz Warwick, Chair of the Huntington University Board of Regents.
“She has been recognized, many times over,
for successes which have resulted in the betterment of Greater
Sudbury and Northern Ontario. She has been a steadfast
supporter of Huntington University for many years, and will serve as
a great ambassador during her tenure as Chancellor.”
Mills has
been a volunteer for many local causes including the Northern Cancer
Foundation, the United Way Centraide, the Sudbury Jazz Festival, and
the Sudbury Community Foundation.
She has received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Medal, Bernadine Yackman Woman of the Year Award, Volunteer of the
Year Award from United Way Sudbury and Nipissing District, The Edward
J. Conroy Community Leadership Award, and more.
“I am extremely
proud to be affiliated with such an outstanding institution of higher
learning,” said Mills. “I'm truly honoured to serve as
Huntington University’s chancellor and will endeavour to advance
the mission and values of the university here at home, and beyond. I
also extend my deepest gratitude to the board of regents for this
remarkable opportunity.”
