Millie Slaughter became blind after having a brain aneurysm at the age of fifteen.

She finished high school at the School of the Blind in St. Augustine, Florida, and then received her Bacholers degree from Florida State University. She moved to Birmingham in 1980 and immediately got involved volenteering for the Lakeshore Foundation.

She also went to clown school and learned how to become a clown. She says she loved to make people laugh, and didn’t mind when kids asked her questions about being blind. She has since retired from being a clown, but still continues to volunteer for organizations like the Lakeshore Foundation and the National Federation of the Blind.