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DAVID MILLER
In January 2007, Governor Chet Culver reappointed David Miller as the administrator of the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division. Miller was originally appointed to the position in September 2004.
Miller has worked for the Division since August 1989. He began his service as the State's Enhanced 9-1-1 Coordinator and served in that capacity until August 1999. From August 1999 until he was appointed as the Division's administrator, he served as the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division's (HSEMD) Chief of Staff. During his career, Miller has acted as special projects coordinator, the Division legislative liaison, and as a Division spokesperson. He has had primary responsibility for the development and publication of HSEMD's administrative rules and has been responsible for the coordination of the Division's strategic planning efforts. Miller has also been a member of the Iowa Emergency Response Commission since May 2003.
Miller has served as the Alternate State Coordinating Officer or the Alternate Governor's Authorized Representative in 17 presidentially declared disasters since 1990, including a major ice storm in 1992, the floods of 1993 and the tornadoes and flooding in 2008. He has also had experience in a number of state and local disaster declarations including the Terra Industries chemical plant explosion in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa in December 1994.
In 1974, Miller began his career in government as a dispatcher with the Iowa Department of Public Safety. He later became a criminal justice specialist with the Department before leaving in 1984 to take the position of Emergency Management Coordinator and 9-1-1 Director with Jackson County, Oregon. In 1986, he became the 9-1-1 Director for Missoula County, Montana, where he served until returning to Iowa in 1989.
Miller is an Iowa native and was born and raised in Sheldon, Iowa. Following high school, he served in the U.S. Navy as a radioman from December 1969 through December 1973. Miller is a 1979 graduate of Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He currently resides in Altoona, Iowa.
Miller is a past member of the Associated Public Safety Communications Officers, the National Emergency Number Association, the National Association of Nine-One-One Administrators, and has served as president of the State and Local Emergency Management Data Users Group. He also chaired the Governor's Communications Interoperability Task Force. Miller is currently a member of the National Emergency Management Association and the Iowa First Responder Advisory Committee.
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