Micheal A. Miller
Micheal A. Miller was born on June 21, 1956 in Bolivar to the late Jere Russell Miller and Lois Bernice Marshall Miller and the grandson of the late Lorenzo and Frances E. Drake Miller.
Micheal attended school at Bolivar Industrial until grade four where he transferred to Bolivar Elementary at the beginning of Tennessee’s school racial desegregation law. He finished high school at Bolivar Central High School in 1974 and attended college at Virginia State College in Petersburg, VA. He later transferred to the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa and graduated with a BA degree in political Science with an emphasis in Economics. He then attended John A. Gupton College in Nashville, TN and received an Associate Arts degree in Mortuary Science. He continued his education when he was accepted to the Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. and received a Juris Doctorate
degree.
After law school he was employed with Jim Sanderson’s law office in Bolivar. He later moved to Waterloo, Iowa where he worked as a Contract Compliance Officer for the City of Waterloo Community Development Department. He later relocated to Nashville, TN where he worked for the State of Tennessee’s Department of Employment Security as an Appeals hearing officer. He was also working with Scales Funeral Home (Nashville) as a funeral director and embalmer. After several years in Nashville the opportunity came to relocate to the Memphis. Mike relocated to Bolivar and worked in Memphis until 2003 when he was hired by the Bolivar Housing Authority Board of Commissioners as Executive Director. During this time he was also working with his grandfather at Dixie Funeral Home. After the death of his grandfather Mike became president of Dixie Benefit Association and Funeral Home, Inc. /dba/ Dixie Funeral Home.
He is married to Lori Wells Peebles Miller of Nashville and has three children (Bethany Miller, Brandon Miller, and Jared Miller) from a previous marriage and three step children (D’Andrea L. Peebles II - deceased, DeAngelo Begley and Jasmine Peebles.) He is a member of St. Paul CME Church-Bolivar where he serves on the Steward Board and a member of the choir. He is a member and former president of the Tennessee State Funeral Director’s and Morticians Association, the Bolivar Downtown Development Corporation (DEVCO) Board, Madison-Haywood Developmental Services Board of Directors, Bolivar Historical Zoning Commission. He is a lifetime member of the NAACP and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. (affiliated with the Jackson Madison County Alumni Chapter).