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BA/cfw.pr Contact: Judith Vaughan-Prather, 301-279-8301
COMMISSION FOR WOMEN
ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT For Immediate Release: August 29, 1996
The Montgomery County Commission for Women has elected Jill Miller as
its president.
A member of the commission since 1993, Miller is co-executive director
of Women Work!, the nation's largest network of women's employment, training
and education programs. She has served the commission as vice president and
chaired its Status of Women project and the Work and Women Committee. She also
represents the commission on the County's Welfare Reform Task Force.
Miller, who is a nationally recognized expert on women's employment
policy and programming, heads a network of more than 1,300 programs serving
women in transition. She has developed and implemented programs preparing
women for apprenticeship and nontraditional occupations. In addition, she has
served as a resource to Congress on women and vocational training, the minimum
wage, welfare, higher education, job training and appropriations.
She organized and chairs the Coalition on Women and Job Training, a
group of advocates representing women's training programs, education
organizations, labor unions, and low-income women and families. Miller
travels throughout the country, assisting state and local programs and
administrators with legislative advocacy, public affairs, community
development and grassroots organizing. She also works with the leaders of
major national women's organization on issues affecting working women.
Miller, who has a Masters Degree in Education from Boston University,
resides in Chevy Chase.
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