James C. Miller III

For other people named James Miller, see James Miller (disambiguation).

James Clifford Miller III
Born	(1942-06-25) June 25, 1942 Atlanta, Georgia
Residence	Washington, Virginia
Education	B.B.A., University of Georgia 1964 (economics) Ph.D., University of Virginia 1969 (economics)
Occupation	Economist, politician
Employer	Senior advisor to Husch Blackwell, LLP, an international commercial law firm.
Home town	Conyers, Georgia
Political party	Republican
Board member of	Board of directors, Washington Mutual Investors Fund, since October 1992 (Member of Advisory Board, November 1989 - October 1992) Board of directors, The Tax Exempt Fund of Maryland, since April 2000 Board of directors, The Tax Exempt Fund of Virginia, since April 2000 Board of directors, The J.P. Morgan Value Opportunities Fund, since December 2001 Chairman of the executive committee, International Tax and Investment Center, since September 2009 Board of directors, Americans for Prosperity, since February 2004
Spouse(s)	DeMaris Humphries Miller (m. June 22, 1961)
Children	Katrina Miller Felix Miller Sabrina Pagkalinawan
Parent(s)	James Clifford Miller, Jr. (an airline pilot) Annie (Moseley) Miller
Awards	Senior Fellow (by courtesy), Hoover Institution (Stanford University), since December 1988 Distinguished Fellow, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, since October 1988
Website	www.jimmiller.org
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
In office October 8, 1985 – October 15, 1988
President	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	David Stockman
Succeeded by	Joseph R. Wright, Jr.
Unsuccessful Republican convention candidate for U.S. Senate from Virginia
Election date 1994
Opponent(s)	Oliver North
Incumbent	Chuck Robb
Unsuccessful Republican primary candidate for U.S. Senate from Virginia
Election date 1996
Opponent(s)	John Warner
Incumbent	John Warner
Notes

James Clifford "Jim" Miller III (born June 25, 1942, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former U.S. government official and economist who served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission between 1981 and 1985 and as Budget Director for President Ronald Reagan between 1985 and 1988. He also ran for United States Senate in Virginia, losing the Republican nomination at the convention to Oliver North in 1994 and losing the nomination in the primary to John Warner in 1996.

Biography

Miller was born in Atlanta and grew up in Conyers, Georgia. He earned a B.B.A. in economics from the University of Georgia in 1964 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 1969.

Between 1977 and 1981, Miller was a resident scholar at the Center for the Study of Government Regulation at the American Enterprise Institute. From 1978 to 1981, he served as co-director of the center.

Miller was the first administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (April - October 1981) and the executive director of Vice President George H. W. Bush's Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief. From 1981 to 1985, he chaired the Federal Trade Commission. From October 1985 to October 1988, Miller was director of the United States Office of Management and Budget.

He is a distinguished fellow at the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University. He is also a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

He has been counselor to and a board member of the former Citizens for a Sound Economy (1988–2002), a member of the boards of the Tax Foundation and the Progress and Freedom Foundation, and a member of the board of visitors of George Mason University and the U.S. Air Force Academy. In addition, Miller has been a director of LECG Economics-Finance, a member of the board of Independence Air, a member of the board of Washington Mutual Investors Fund, a member of the board of the Tax-Exempt Fund of Maryland, a member of the board of the Tax-Exempt Fund of Virginia, a member of the board of the J.P. Morgan Value Opportunities Fund, a member of the board of Clean Energy, a consultant to Freddie Mac, and chairman of the board of Economic Impact Analysts, Inc. (family-held consulting firm).

From 2003 to 2006, Miller was chairman (or chairman emeritus) of the Capital Analysis Group (CapAnalysis), a division of the international law firm Howrey LLP. Currently, he is a senior advisor to international law firm of Husch Blackwell Sanders (merger dated March 1, 2008) He was a member of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service (2003–2012), where he was elected chairman in 2005, 2006, and 2007.

On November 9, 2009, it was announced that Miller was picked by the then Premier of the Cayman Islands William McKeeva Bush to lead an independent task force to examine new revenue options for the Cayman Islands Government. The Cayman Islands has no direct taxation although that may change as a result of an agreement with the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The UK FCO allowed the Cayman Islands Government to borrow additional funds to meet capital and operational expenses as long as the Government agreed to look at ways in which to increase and stabilize its revenue base—direct taxation being the preferred solution.

References

• President Reagan's speech to OMB staff upon Jim Miller's retirement, September 28, 1988

External links

• James C. Miller on The George Jarkesy Show
• Appearances on C-SPAN

Political offices
Preceded by David Stockman	Director of the Office of Management and Budget Served under: Ronald Reagan 1985–1988	Succeeded by Joseph R. Wright, Jr.