Frances McConnell Mills

Dr. Frances McConnell-Mills
Forensic Physician
1900 - 1975
INDUCTED 1996

Frances McConnell-Mills, was the first woman toxicologist for the City of Denver, and gained a national reputation for effectively testifying in murder cases.

Frances McConnell-Mills grew up in Monument, Colorado where her father was a physician and pharmacist. Frances supported herself through medical school and graduated from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1925. After interning at Denver General Hospital, she accepted a position as a toxicologist in the hospital’s coroner’s office.

Medicine is too hard a life for a woman.” — Dr. McConnell, Frances’s father who refused to pay for her medical school tuition