Senator Fred Mills, a long time member of Southern Mutual Help Association, Inc.’s (SMHA) Board of Directors, has become SMHA’s new Chair of the Board.
Fred was a member of the Louisiana State Senate from 2011 to 2024 and had previously represented District 46 in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2003 to 2011. He is President and CEO of Farmers Merchants Bank & Trust and is a licensed pharmacist. He is a founding member and served as President of St. Martin Economic Development Authority and is vice-chairman of the St. Martin Hospital Board of Directors.
He is a recipient of the Louisiana Rural Health Association’s Rural Health Legislator of the Year award. Portfolio of Service: Briefs & advises SMHA on legislative and state administrative issues, expert on health care and institutional transitions as well as banking and economic development issues, connects the not-for-profit sector to public sector, public relations expertise. Shares his extraordinary talent and sense of humor while briefing the board on the most stressful of economic and policy issues.
