Senator Fred H. Mills, Jr. has served as a Louisiana legislator for fifteen years. He represented Louisiana House of Representatives District 46 from 2008 to 2011 and has represented Senate District 22 for three consecutive terms, which will end in 2024. He has been the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare since 2016, overseeing the physical, behavioral, and social healthcare policy and legislative directives governing the people of Louisiana. He has authored significant legislation impacting children and families in the areas of behavioral health care, access to physical therapy, medical marijuana, pharmacy benefit managers, Medicaid managed care, professional and occupational health licensing boards, safe drinking water, and the opioid crisis, to name just a few.

Senator Mills has served at one time on nearly every Senate standing committee and on numerous public and private boards and commissions, including the Acadian Ambulance Board of Directors for over fifteen years, the St. Martin Economic Development Authority (SMEDA) for over thirty years as a founding member and current president and CEO, and the Board of Directors for the St. Martin Parish Hospital Service District for over forty years.

He is a licensed pharmacist and has owned and operated Mills Cashway Pharmacy in Parks, Louisiana since 1981. He has also been on the Board of Directors and has served as the president and CEO of Farmers Merchants Bank and Trust for twenty-two years. Previously, he served as the executive director for the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy.

Senator Mills is a graduate of Breaux Bridge High School and the University of Louisiana at Monroe, College of Pharmacy.