NCUA selects Miller as new continuity and security management director

Miller currently serves as a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She will begin her new duties Dec. 16.

NCUA reallocated existing resources to create the Office of Continuity and Security Management. The new office will improve NCUA’s security and continuity activities by consolidating operations in a single office. The office will also enhance the effective use of sensitive information among the agency’s staff.

The office, which will begin operations on Jan. 6, 2014, will have four core responsibilities:

• National continuity programs;
• Emergency management and physical security;
• Personnel security; and
• Intelligence and information security.

During her career, Miller has specialized in intelligence and security matters. Her experience includes serving as Senior Advisor for Global Health Security at the National Intelligence Council, as Chief Scientist at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, Division Chief and Senior Intelligence Officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Senior Public Health Officer in the U.S. Air Force. Miller holds a doctorate from Washington State University, a master’s from the University of California, Davis, and a bachelor’s from the University of Idaho.

Miller succeeds James L. “TaB” Patrick, Jr., who is retiring as NCUA’s Director of the Division of Strategic and Continuity Planning after more than 45 years of government service. Patrick spent more than 13 years with NCUA.

NCUA is the independent federal agency created by the U.S. Congress to regulate, charter and supervise federal credit unions. With the backing of the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government, NCUA operates and manages the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, insuring the deposits of more than 95 million account holders in all federal credit unions and the overwhelming majority of state-chartered credit unions.