John Atta Mills Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Early career== Mills' first formal teaching assignment was as a lecturer at the [[Faculty of Law]] at the [[University of Ghana]].<ref name="aljaz2"/> He spent close to twenty-five years teaching at [[University of Ghana|Legon]] and other institutions of higher learning.<ref name="bbcbio"/> In 1971, he was selected for the [[Fulbright Scholar]] programme at [[Stanford Law School]] in the US.<ref name=":3" /> He returned to his homeland, Ghana, at the end of the [[Fulbright program|international educational exchange]] fellowship to work at his alma mater, the University of Ghana, for 25 years.<ref name="bbcbio"/> He became a visiting professor at [[Temple University]] ([[Philadelphia]], USA), with two stints from 1978 to 1979, and 1986 to 1987. He was also a visiting lecturer at [[Leiden University]] in the [[Netherlands]] from 1985 to 1986. During this period, he authored several publications relating to taxation in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name="ghananation1">{{cite web |date=24 July 2012 |title=John Evans Fifii Atta Mills β Biography β GhanaNation News |url=http://news1.ghananation.com/articles/267425-john-atta-mills-biography.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120727011107/http://news1.ghananation.com/articles/267425-john-atta-mills-biography.html |archive-date=27 July 2012 |access-date=27 September 2012 |publisher=News1 ghananation}}</ref> Outside of his academic pursuits, Mills was the Acting Commissioner of Ghana's [[Internal Revenue Service (Ghana)|Internal Revenue Service]] from 1988 to 1993 under President [[Jerry John Rawlings]],<ref name="bbcbio"/> and the substantive Commissioner from 1993 to 1996. By 1992, he had become an [[Associate professor|Associate Professor]] of Law at the University of Ghana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/news/features/15254-biography-of-late-president-mills- |title=Biography of Late President Mills |publisher=Ghana.gov.gh |date=11 August 2012 |access-date=27 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930011035/http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/news/features/15254-biography-of-late-president-mills- |archive-date=30 September 2012 }}</ref> In 2002, he was a [[visiting scholar]] at the [[Liu Institute for Global Issues]] at the [[University of British Columbia]] in [[Vancouver]], British Columbia through a joint [[Canadian International Development Agency]](CIDA) β [[International Development Research Centre]] (IDRC) fellowship programme.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/?p2=modules/liu/news/view.jsp&id=513 |title=Liu Institute for Global Issues |publisher=Ligi.ubc.ca |date=1 August 2012 |access-date=27 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623032826/http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/?p2=modules%2Fliu%2Fnews%2Fview.jsp&id=513 |archive-date=23 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Misc/Pages/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=463 |title=Misc β News |publisher=Idrc.ca |access-date=27 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523141045/http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Misc/Pages/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=463 |archive-date=23 May 2013 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page