Distinguished Alumni
Richard W. Mills
Awarded 2017
Following his 32 year-career in the U.S. Army, Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Richard Mills is continuing to serve his country as an instructor with Special Operations military forces on the art and science of planning at the strategic level for future operational requirements.
A 1974 SHSU criminal justice graduate who earned his Bachelor of Science degree in law enforcement and police science, Mills later attended the Naval War College, where he received a Master of Arts degree in national security and strategic studies.
For 27 years, he served as a U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) officer and attained the rank of Brigadier General—possibly the first to have attended all four years of SHSU ROTC—while serving in and commanding U.S. Special Operations Forces.
Since his retirement from the army, Mills has been actively involved in supporting scholarship programs that benefit members of the Bearkat Battalion and was instrumental in the establishment of the Military Science Alumni Club of the SHSU Alumni Association and serves as president of the club.