First Black to serve as clerk of House of Representatives

Jet, Feb 19, 2007

Lorraine C. Miller, president of the NAACP Washington, D.C., branch and senior advisor to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has been appointed clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Miller, who has nearly two decades of experience working for the House, is the first Black person to serve as an official of the House of Representatives.

Miller said she is "proud to undertake this new challenge to serve Congress and the American people."

"After more than a decade of serving individual members of the House, I look forward to the opportunity to work on the behalf of the entire body," said Miller, who also worked in the Clinton Administration. She also served as bureau chief for Consumer Information at the Federal Communications Commission and director of government relations for the Federal Trade Commission.

Miller is a native of Fort Worth, TX, and holds an executive master's degree from the Georgetown School of Business.