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Teri Mills is president of the National Nursing Network Organization. She graduated from the College of San Mateo with an associate degree in nursing in 1973, and worked as a charge nurse on a medical-surgical floor before going on to complete her BSN at Sonoma State University. Following graduation, Ms. Mills was hired to teach nursing at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. She was subsequently hired as a nurse educator in 1979 for Portland Community College (PCC), and remains in this role.

In addition to teaching, Ms. Mills also worked as a nurse and nurse practitioner for Multnomah and Washington County's Health Departments. She graduated from the University of Portland, where she focused her graduate work on primary care of the adult, with a minor in nursing education. 

Ms. Mills received an Excellence in Teaching award from PCC in 2000. She has planned and carried out numerous volunteer activities in her own community, and is a trusted supporter of many political candidates. Ms. Mills was appointed by Governor Barbara Roberts to serve on the Oregon Sexual Offenses Against Children Task Force and was a member of the board of directors of Bradley Angle House, a shelter for abused women. Ms. Mills authored the article "America's Nurse," published in The New York Times on May 20, 2005, and co-authored "Office of the National Nurse-Leadership for a New Era of Prevention," published February 2007 in Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice.