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Margaret Mills
Margaret A. Mills (born November 9, 1946) is a folklorist and Professor "emerita" of the Department of Near East Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University.
Personal life.
Margaret Mills was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but raised in Seattle, Washington where her Italian-born mother was raised. Although both of her parents were physicians, Mills’s interests carried her in a different direction. After having spent most of her career in Pennsylvania and Ohio, with research years in Afghanistan,
was a chartered accountant. She was educated at St. Helen's School, Northwood, where she became head girl, and then studied law at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating in the second class in 1962.
Career.
Mills was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in 1963. She became a barrister at 3 Temple Gardens in 1967, in chambers headed by Edward Cussens. She had a successful career as a barrister, specialising in criminal prosecution. She became a prosecuting counsel in 1977, then junior