Alice Miller (politician)

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Alice Miller (born March 22, 1939 on Long Island ) is an American politician and former educator . She was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1996 to 2018 .

Life

Private life, education and work

She came on Long Iceland in the US state of New York to the world, but grew up in Shaftsbury ( Bennington County , Vermont on). There she first attended North Bennington High School before studying at Bennington College . She graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and moved to the private and not-for-profit Bank Street College of Education in New York City , where she earned her master's degree in education in 1964 . She then devoted herself to postgraduate studies at New York University .

Miller worked in the research and development management for Roche Diagnostics in Branchburg ( New Jersey ), before returning to Shaftsbury in 1993 to care for her mother. There she worked in the following years as a trainer for special education , worked as a special education advisor for the Vermont Agency of Education and developed an educational support program for low-income families in the vicinity of the city of Brattleboro . At Bennington College, she initiated a network to find internships and temporary jobs for students.

She still lives in Shaftsbury and has a Christian - Unitarian concept of religion.

Political activity

Upon her return to Shaftsbury in the early 1990s, Miller was elected to the city's "selectboard" (city council). For the Democratic Party , she ran in November 1996 in the elections for the House of Representatives from Vermont and won clearly against the Republican Rickey L. Harrington . She was able to defend her seat in each of the biennial elections - often without a candidate running. Miller represented Bennington-3 constituency in the House of Representatives and served on the Education Committee . For the election on November 6, 2018, she did not run again and thus left the House of Representatives.

She also served on the Work Force Investment Board for Bennington County, the Bennington Learning Institute, the Bennington Business and Professional Women, and the American Association of University Women. She was a Vermont delegate to the New England Board of Higher Education and served on the Fisheries and Nature Grant Committee.

Detailed listing of Miller's election results
Election date (Main) opposing candidate Votes for Miller Miller's share of the valid votes
11/07/1996 Rickey L. Harrington ( R ) 1077 59.60%
11/03/1998 not available
07/11/2000 Ken Coonradt ( R ) 1104 52.25%
05/11/2002 Charles Bushey ( R ) 946 51.86%
11/02/2004 Bob perry ( r ) 1196 54.74%
07/11/2006 - 1308 100.00%
04/11/2008 - 1623 100.00%
11/02/2010 Francis Kinney ( R ) 984 57.88%
11/06/2012 - 1485 100.00%
04/11/2014 - 823 95.04%
11/08/2016 - 1517 100.00%

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official profile of Alice Miller on the Vermont General Assembly homepage; accessed on November 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ List of Members of the Democratic Party for the 2015/2016 legislative period. ( December 8, 2015 memento on Internet Archive ) Vermont Democratic House Campaign; accessed on November 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ Jim Therrien, "Shaftsbury Rep. Alice Miller to retire after 11 terms". Retrieved from vtdigger.org on November 14, 2018.
  4. ↑ Profile of Alice Miller. ourcampaigns.com; accessed on November 28, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician and educator
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH long Island