Mills Is Out

Published May 14 2007, 09:19 PM by David S. Bernstein

Statehouse News Service says that Deval Patrick's communications director, Nancy Fernandez Mills, is "returning to the private sector," also known as losing her job.

Mills and former chief-of-staff Joan Benjamin-Wallace were the most conspicuously inexperienced people hired for top positions on Patrick's staff, and both are now gone after four months.

Both seem like good people with a lot to offer; if anything, the fault is Patrick's for setting them up to fail in positions they weren't ready for and didn't have time to grow into.