Maine Turnpike Authority

S. Peter Mills, Esq., of Cornville, executive director of the Maine Turnpike Authority, is a Maine native.  He graduated from Harvard College in 1965, served five years on U.S. Navy destroyers during the Vietnam conflict and graduated from Maine Law School in 1973.  After practicing law in Portland for nine years, he moved to Skowhegan to become the owner of the Wright & Mills law firm.  From 1995 through 2010, he served eight terms in the Maine Legislature.  He is a founding member of two central Maine economic development groups.  In 2006 and 2010, he ran unsuccessfully for governor in GOP primaries.  Since his appointment to the Turnpike Authority in 2011, he divides his time between Turnpike headquarters in Portland and his Cornville woodlots on weekends.  In 2014, his wife Nancy was appointed to her fourth 7-year term as a justice of the Maine Superior Court.  He has three adult daughters and six grandchildren.