Born in
North Vancouver,
British Columbia, Millard graduated from the
University of British Columbia in 1965. After graduation, Millard moved to the
Yukon, where she worked as a barmaid at a hotel in
Dawson City before finding a permanent job as a
social worker. and served as Minister responsible for Education, Recreation, Manpower and Housing in her final months in office. In the
1978 election, which was the first partisan election to the new
Yukon Legislative Assembly, she ran for reelection as an independent candidate in the district of
Klondike, losing to
Meg McCall of the
Yukon Progressive Conservative Party. She has since published three books as a writer, the short story collection
River Child, the memoir
Journeys Outside and In and the novel
Summer Snow. She also leads the Grandparents' Rights Association of the Yukon, an organization which advocates for
kinship care rights in the territory, where for various demographic reasons the number of children being raised by their grandparents instead of their biological parents is fully three times higher than the norm elsewhere in Canada. ==References==