![Holmgren at the 1996 Convocation with Marian Wright Edelman. (Courtesy of The Crest)](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/1996ConvocationMarianWrightEdelman0001.jpg)
“I am now convinced that this is the beginning of a very long love affair with Mills College.”
– Janet Holmgren, March 4, 1991
“I’ve liked her (Holmgren) better each time I’ve met her.”
– Warren Hellman, March 1991
![Janet Holmgren (center) with students, March 1993.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/March-1993President-Holmgren-with-students.jpg)
“Undergraduate coeducation is not an issue for Mills. It is off the table. I speak for myself as president and I speak for the board.”
– Janet Holmgren, Sept. 1993
![Dancing in the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia in 2008. (Courtesy of The Crest)](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/Dancing-in-the-Red-Sea.Saudi-Arabia2008.jpg)
![Sept. 30, 2005, Natural Sciences Building at the Ground Breaking Ceremony. (Courtesy of The Crest)](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/Sep.30.2005-Natural-Sciences-Bldg.GroundBreaking-Ceremony.jpg)
“I’ve seen that in the last 10 years that building the endowment, building the student body, building the buildings — it’s all an investment in empowering Mills as an institution.”
– Janet Holmgren, April 2010
![Summer 2010. (Courtesy of The Quarterly)](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/summer2010sec1pg5.jpg)
“People say presidency is like being mayor of a small town…Your responsibility is to take care of the whole body politic, not just yourself or your own aspirations”
– Janet Holmgren, April 2010
![April 10, 2008 at the Breaking the Glass Ceiling Building event in Lokey Graduate Business School. (Courtesy of The Crest)](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/April-102008-Lorry-I.Lokey-GSB-breaking-the-glass-ceiling-bldg.event_.jpg)
Mills College Presidents: From Past to Present
![Mary Atkins Lynch, 1854-1865.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/mary_atkins.jpg)
![Susan Mills 1865-1884, 1890-1909.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/susan_mills.gif)
![Cyrus Mills, 1865-1884.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/cyrus_mills.jpg)
![Luella Clay Carson, 1909-1914.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/luella_carson.jpg)
![Aurelia H. Reinhardt, 1916-1943.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/aurelia_henry_reinhardt.jpg)
![Lynn T. White Jr., 1943-1958.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/lynn_white.jpg)
![C. Easton Rothwell, 1959-1967.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/c_easton_rothwell.jpg)
![Robert T. Wert, 1967-1976.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/robert_wert.gif)
![Barbara M. White, 1976-1980.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/barbara_white.jpg)
![Mary S. Meltz, 1981-1990.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/mary_metz.gif)
![Virginia Smith, 1990-1991.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/Virginia-Smith90-91-270x300.jpg)
![Janet Holmgren, 1991-2011.](http://eic.opalstacked.com/media/2011/05/janet_l_holmgren.jpg)
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