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<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head><script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/bundle-playback.js?v=HxkREWBo" charset="utf-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/wombat.js?v=txqj7nKC" charset="utf-8"></script> <script>window.RufflePlayer=window.RufflePlayer||{};window.RufflePlayer.config={"autoplay":"on","unmuteOverlay":"hidden"};</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/ruffle/ruffle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> __wm.init("https://web.archive.org/web"); __wm.wombat("http://www.ghanareview.com/Elect/NDCprof.html","20070928032220","https://web.archive.org/","web","/_static/", "1190949740"); </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_static/css/banner-styles.css?v=S1zqJCYt" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_static/css/iconochive.css?v=3PDvdIFv" />  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel="File-List" href="./NDCprof_files/filelist.xml"> <title>Profiles of presidential candidates </title>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang="EN-GB" style="tab-interval: 36.0pt"> <div class="Section1"> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Professor John Evans Atta Mills (NDC) <o:p></o:p></span><img alt="" border="0" height="66" src="/web/20070928032220im_/http://www.ghanareview.com/Elect/NDC.jpg" width="50"></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Date & Region of Birth</b>: Born on 21 July 1944 in the Central Region of Ghana.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Family</b>: He is married to Ernestina Naadu, an educationist, who works with the Ghana Education Service (GES). She was born on 4 October 1944. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Education:</b> Prof. Mills' attended Achimota School from 1957-63 where he obtained the ordinary and advanced level certificates. He studied at the University of Ghana, Legon, from 1963-66 where he obtained the Bachelor of Law and Professional Certificate in Law in 1967. He also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he obtained his LL M in 1968, School of Oriental African Studies, University of London (PhD) in 1971 and the Stanford Law School, California (Fulbright Scholar) in 1971. </p><img align="right" alt="" border="0" height="140" src="/web/20070928032220im_/http://www.ghanareview.com/Elect/Prof John Evans Atta Mills.jpg" width="100"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Career:</b> Prof. Mills' employment record shows that between 1971 and 1980, he was a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon, where he rose through the ranks to Associate Professor of Law in 1992.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He has also served as a visiting professor of Temple Law School, Philadelphia, from 1978 to 1979 and 1986 to 1987 and Leiden University, Holland from 1985 to 86. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt">From 1986 to 1993, Prof. Mills was the Acting Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service and the substantive Commissioner from 1993-1996 when he was selected as the running mate to President Jerry Rawlings for the 1996 elections. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">He has contributed in various capacities to University Administration including being Tutor, Librarian and Council member of Legon Hall, member of Board of Social Studies and School of Administration, member of Admissions Board, Staff<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Housing Loans Scheme and Chairman University<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Superannuation Scheme. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Prof. Mills has more than one dozen publications to his credit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>These include Taxation of Periodical or Deferred Payments arising from the Sale of Fixed Capital (1974), Exemption of Dividends from Income taxation: A critical Appraisal (1977),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Report of the Tax Review Commission, Ghana, parts 1,2&3,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>(1977) and Ghana's Income Tax laws and the Investor. An inter- faculty lecture published by the University of Ghana.</p> </div> </body> </html>