Jim Mills

Jim Mills comes to The Hill having spent the better part of the last two decades working in Washington, D.C., as a television news producer and political columnist.

The first full-time, embedded Capitol Hill producer for C-SPAN, Mills's responsibilities included arranging the network’s floor and hearing coverage, as well as writing, producing and editing a series of long-form documentaries on key members of Congress, from April of 1990 to October of 1996. While at C-SPAN he produced the 30-hour “Vietnam Revisited,” a documentary covering the Vietnam trip of the Senate Committee of POW/MIA Affairs headed by John McCain and John Kerry. Mills also produced the weekly series “Inside Congress” — which detailed the historic 1992 and 1994 classes — and pioneered the network’s live guest interviews during House floor votes.

In late 1996 Mills moved over to the nascent Fox News network, where as senior producer he launched and coordinated all Capitol Hill coverage: presidential inaugurations, State of the Union addresses, Supreme Court confirmation hearings, state funerals, network pools and all the major news stories and newsmakers of the day. Between 1997 and 2002, while still at Fox, Mills was also moonlighting as a columnist for the National Journal’s Cloakroom and RollCall.com, penning hundreds of Web-based political-humor pieces highlighting key players and events on the Hill.

Awards and honors Mr. Mills has garnered include being elected a member of the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association Executive Committee in 1997; serving as president of that association and chairman of the Executive Committee in 1998; organizing, hosting and emceeing the association’s annual black-tie gala featuring President Bill Clinton, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and House Speaker Dennis Hastert in 1999; and being named by the American Journalism Review as an Unsung Hero of Broadcast Journalism in 2002.