Biography

Krista Mills
Field Office Director
Louisville Field Office
January 11, 2008

Krista Mills joined the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1998. She has served as the field office director for the Kentucky HUD office since 2004; prior to that, she served as the deputy to the field office director. She is responsible for forwarding Secretarial initiatives and achieving the Department's strategic objectives with Kentucky's housing industry partners, media, elected officials, and affordable housing advocacy groups.

She is also the co-director of HUD's national task force on workforce housing: America's Affordable Communities Initiative. As Secretarial initiative, the task force is charged with the mission of working with the housing industry and local governments to reduce barriers that increase the cost of housing production. Krista is also the co-author of the National Call to Action for Affordable Housing through Regulatory Reform, which has enlisted over 175 jurisdictions nationwide to form task forces to evaluate and create action plans that address their regulatory environments.

Prior to joining HUD, Krista directed a private non-profit agency serving homeless women and children; initiated the first Continuum of Care homeless coalition in Central Virginia; and developed the first nationally accredited child care center in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Ms. Mills holds a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a master's degree from Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia.