Sarah Millard
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The Right Honourable Sarah Millard | |
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| Prime Minister of Scalizagasti | |
| Assumed office 22 August 2016 | |
| President | Paul Kruig |
| Preceded by | Gary Biyende |
| Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure | |
| Assumed office 22 August 2016 | |
| Prime Minister | Herself |
| Preceded by | David Mestakos |
| Leader of the Social Democratic Party | |
| Assumed office 22 January 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Laura Hannasuya (interim) |
| Member of Parliament | |
| Assumed office 12 August 2012 | |
| Constituency | Bewundal East |
| SDP Critic for Youth Affairs | |
| In office 12 August 2012 – 22 August 2016 | |
| Leader | Bill Hu David Keyes Laura Hannasuya (acting) |
| Preceded by | David Li |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 February 1981 Garor City, Torlonia, Scalizagasti |
| Political party | SDP (1997 - present) |
| Domestic partner | Marc Millard |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Torlonia, Bewundal University |
Sarah Millard (born 12 February 1981) is a Scalizagasti politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Scalizagasti since 2016 and the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Scalizagasti since 2015. She has also served as the Member of Parliament for Bewundal East since 2012. She is Scalizagasti's youngest Prime Minister, elected at the age of 35.
She was born in Garor City, where she attended the Oparle District High School. While studying at the University of Torlonia, she was elected president of the University of Torlonia Social Democrats. After graduating from university, she began her professional political career as a policy advisor to Bewundal mayor John Ammoth.
Millard became the second-youngest leader of the Social Democrats at 33, only behind 32 year old Max Sormann. She won the 2015 leadership race on the second ballot with 51% of the vote. As leader, she led her party to second place in the 2016 election, winning 154 seats. This was the best electoral result for the SDP in over a decade since the corruption scandals that plagued the party in the mid-2000s. The SDP was able to form a coalition government instead of the first-place Revolutionary Republican Party (who had 160 seats), which some attribute to Millard's excellent leadership and cooperative skills. In the 2020 election, she led the SDP to win 255 seats, one of the largest victories for a party in Scalizagasti's history and only four seats short of an absolute majority.
Ideologically, Millard has been described as a social democrat and a progressive. She supports investments into public transit, universal postsecondary education, social housing, and other similar policies.
Early life, education, and family
Sarah Millard was born on 12 February 1981 in Garor City, Torlonia. She is the daughter of Lisa (née Elron), a secretary, and Gustav Millard, a high school teacher. Her mother was born in Garor City and her father was born in Tilmington, a town in northern Ostrawijan, both of ethnic Scalizagastian descent. Her two times maternal great-grandfather, Jean Marcier, was the mayor of Garor City. Millard was born in the Garor City Hospital and grew up in the Oparle neighbourhood, an area of Garor City that had a mixed Torlu and Scalizagastian ethnic population. Millard has one brother, Robert, who is a practicing dentist in Masfassen.
Millard went to Oparle District High School, graduating in 1999. After high school, she studied at the University of Torlonia in downtown Garor City for her degree in economics, graduating in 2003. She moved to Bewundal, the capital of Scalizagasti, in 2004 while pursuing her master's degree in public policy at Bewundal University. After graduating in 2005 with a degree in public policy, she got a job with the municipal government and served as a policy advisor for mayor John Ammoth. Notably, she spearheaded the movement to improve and revitalize the public transportation of Bewundal to make commuting easier and reduce the emissions of the city.
Millard has been married to her partner Marc (né Teskey) since 12 November 2013. The Millards have one daughter, Laurel Millard, who was born in 2014. While her family was Auldenist growing up, Millard has said that she and her husband are not "not actively religious." They also own a dog, Jimbo, which was adopted in 2011 while the Millards were still dating.