Background
McMillan, the adopted daughter of two teachers, graduated as valedictorian of Knoxville’s South-Young High School and with honors from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
McMillan, the adopted daughter of two teachers, graduated as valedictorian of Knoxville’s South-Young High School and with honors from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
McMillan, the adopted daughter of two teachers, graduated as valedictorian of Knoxville’s South-Young High School and with honors from the at Knoxville. She received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she served as executive editor of The Tennessee Law Review. She is a member of the Montgomery County, Nashville, and Tennessee bar associations.
She was a candidate in the 2010 Tennessee gubernatorial election, but dropped out to run for mayor of Clarksville. McMillan served for 12 years in the Tennessee House of Representatives, where she sat on the Finance, Ways & Means Committee. The Budget Subcommittee.
The Judiciary Committee.
The Government Operations Committee. And the Calendar and Rules Committee, for which she served as Chairperson.
She was twice elected to the position of House Majority Leader, in 2002 and 2004. During her tenure in the House, McMillan was honored with numerous awards for excellence from various organizations, including the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police, the Tennessee Association, the Tennessee School Boards Association, the Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Tennessee Press Association, the County Officials Association of Tennessee, and the Tennessee Hospital Association.
In 2006, McMillan did not seek re-election to the Tennessee House of Representatives and accepted an appointment by Tennessee Governor Philosophy Bredesen to his Cabinet, where she served as Senior Advisor to the Governor.
In 2008, she returned to her hometown of Clarksville, Tennessee to serve as Executive Director of Community and Business Relations for Austin Peay State University, where she is also a faculty member in the Political Science Department. She also serves on the President"s Cabinet at Austin Peay, an advisory council created to address matters that affect the entire University. McMillan entered the 2010 Tennessee gubernatorial election on March 1, 2009.
On March 31, 2010 she dropped out of the race for governor, announcing that she would instead run for mayor of Clarksville, Tennessee and support Mike McWherter"s candidacy for governor.
Kim McMillan now serves as the Mayor of Clarksville, succeeding Johnny Piper. She also serves on the board of the Monroe Carell Junior.
Children"s Hospital at Vanderbilt. She is also now serving as Mayor of the City of Clarksville.
McMillan"s husband of more than 20 years, Judge Larry McMillan, is a native Clarksvillian and currently serves as Chancellor for the 19th Judicial District of Tennessee.
She is a member of the Montgomery County, Nashville, and Tennessee bar associations. McMillan is a founding board member of Leadership Middle Tennessee and is the chairman of Cumberland Bank & Trust, a community bank in Clarksville.