Barbara Childers McMillin

McMillin is no stranger to the area. She grew up 15 miles north of Blue Mountain in Falkner and came to BMC after 20 years at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where most recently she was Associate Provost and Dean of Instruction.

She is an alumna of Northeast Mississippi Community College, Union University, and the University of Mississippi.

After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Union, McMillin earned both her M.A. and D.A. in English at Ole Miss. As a graduate student, she was a teaching assistant at Ole Miss and an English Instructor at BMC in the summers of 1985 and 1987.

McMillin was a member of the NEMCC English faculty for five years before joining the Union faculty in the fall of 1992. She was named Union’s Faculty of the Year in 1999.