# Pam Miller > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pam_Miller > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pam_Miller.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Miller > Source revision: 1350108292 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Pam Miller** served as the [mayor of Lexington, Kentucky](/source/List_of_mayors_of_Lexington,_Kentucky) from 1993 to 2003. On January 3, 1993, she became Lexington's first woman mayor.[1] She was first elected to the Urban County Council in 1973 and was the first woman elected to public office in the city.[2] She served from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1980 to 1993. She served as vice-mayor before becoming mayor after the resignation of [Scotty Baesler](/source/Scotty_Baesler), who was elected to the [United States Congress](/source/United_States_Congress) in 1992. She was elected to a full term as mayor in 1993 and again in 1998, though she chose not to run for a third term in 2002. Under her leadership, Lexington developed an Urban Area Greenspace Plan in 1994.[3] In 1995, she founded [Partners for Youth](http://partners4youth.org), a non-profit organization that serves as a clearinghouse for funding programs for youth in Lexington.[4] This development occurred after the shooting and killing of Antonio Orlando Sullivan, an eighteen-year-old African American male, by a white police officer in October 1994 which had caused a public outcry.[5] Upon her retirement as mayor, Pam Miller remained active in civic affairs. She became a member and then chair of the [Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence](http://www.prichardcommittee.org/about-us/members) (serving as chair from 2006 to 2010), and the Lexington Opera Society (chair, 2007–2009).[6] Governor [Steve Beshear](/source/Steve_Beshear) appointed her to the [Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education](http://cpe.ky.gov) in 2008,[7] and served as the Council's vice chair from February 2010 to December 2011. She was elected as the Council's chair in 2012[8] and has been reappointed in that leadership role each year since. Her current term on the Council ended on December 31, 2018.[9] ## Background Miller earned her bachelor's degree in European history, [magna cum laude](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/magna_cum_laude), from [Smith College](/source/Smith_College) in 1960.[6] She taught history and French in Connecticut. She married physician and former Olympic alpine skier [Dr. Ralph E. Miller Jr.](/source/Ralph_Miller_(alpine_skier)) in 1962. They had three children: two boys and one girl. She worked for the [Congressional Quarterly](/source/Congressional_Quarterly) in Washington D.C. from 1962 to 1965 as a reporter and editor. From 1966 to 1969 she a grant writer at [Boston ABCD](http://www.bostonabcd.org/) ([Action for Boston Community Development](/source/Action_for_Boston_Community_Development)), an anti-poverty and community development organization.[6] She also worked for [The Boston Globe](/source/The_Boston_Globe). The Millers left Boston in 1969 when Dr. Miller got a Research Fellowship in Neuroendocrinology at Stanford University in California. They came to Lexington in 1970 from California when Dr. Miller was hired at the [University of Kentucky](/source/University_of_Kentucky) to be a professor of pharmacology.[10] Soon after that, Pam Miller started in 1972 what is now the Lexington Farmers Market.[11] ## Honors On September 12, 2002, Mayor Miller was presented by the [University of Kentucky](/source/University_of_Kentucky) with a rose created to honor her and her service to the city of Lexington.[12] ## References 1. ["Lexington's Memorable Mayors"](http://lexhistory.org/wikilex/lexingtons-memorable-mayors). *WikiLex: A History Hub*. Lexington History Museum. Retrieved April 27, 2014. 1. Martin, Emily (February 8, 2014). ["Lexington is Full of Pioneers"](http://beapioneer.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/lexington-is-full-of-pioneers-2/). *Write on Broadway*. Retrieved April 27, 2014. 1. ["Lexington-Fayette County Greenspace Plan"](http://www.lexingtonky.gov/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2174). *L.F.U.C.G. Planning Commission*. Lexington, Kentucky: Lexington-Fayette County Urban County Government. August 1994. Retrieved April 27, 2014. 1. ["Our history"](http://partners4youth.org/our-history/). *Partners For Youth*. Retrieved April 27, 2014. 1. ["Black unrest in Lexington, Ky."](https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/26/us/black-unrest-in-lexington-ky.html). *New York Times*. October 26, 1994. Retrieved April 27, 2014. 1. ["Pam Miller"](http://www.martin.uky.edu/people/miller_bio.html). *Martin School of Public Policy and Administration*. University of Kentucky. Retrieved April 27, 2014. 1. ["Pam Miller and Dan Flanagan to lead CPE"](http://insight.councilonpostsecondaryeducation.org/2012/03/pam-miller-dan-flanagan-lead-cpe). *CPE Insight*. Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. March 2012. Retrieved April 27, 2014. 1. Lytle, Alan (January 3, 2012). ["Former Mayor Pam Miller To Chair CPE"](http://wuky.org/post/former-mayor-pam-miller-chair-cpe). *[WUKY](/source/WUKY)*. Retrieved April 27, 2014. 1. ["Pam Miller bio"](http://cpe.ky.gov/about/cpe/Pam+Miller+bio.htm). Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. Retrieved April 27, 2014. 1. ["2003 Recipients - Dr. Ralph E. Miller"](http://www.hellenicidealsprogram.org/recipients/2003.htm). *Hellenic Ideals Program of the Bluegrass*. Retrieved April 27, 2014. 1. ["Interview of Former Mayor Pam Miller"](https://www.ees.as.uky.edu/podcasts/farmers-market-oral-history-pam-miller). *Farmers Market Oral History*. College of Arts and Sciences HIVE, University of Kentucky. March 16, 2012. 1. Lewis, George (September 12, 2002). ["UK College of Agriculture Names Rose in Honor of Lexington Mayor Pam Miller"](http://www.uky.edu/PR/News/Archives/2002/Sept2002/millerrose.htm). *UK Public Relations Archive*. University of Kentucky. Retrieved April 27, 2014. ## External links - ["2003 Recipients - Honorable Pam G. Miller"](http://www.hellenicidealsprogram.org/recipients/2003.htm). *Hellenic Ideals Program of the Bluegrass*. Retrieved April 27, 2014. ## Bibliography - ["Interview with Pam Miller, August 23rd, 1996"](http://kentuckyoralhistory.org/interviews/22984). *Louie B Nunn Center for Oral History*. University of Kentucky Libraries. Retrieved April 27, 2014. - *Mayors of Lexington, Kentucky: Scotty Baesler, Teresa Isaac, Pam Miller, Jim Newberry*. [S.l.]: General Books. 2010. ISBN 1158517882. --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Pam Miller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Miller) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Miller?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.