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Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman today delegated the duties of the
Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Pension and Welfare Benefits
Administration (PWBA) to Meredith Miller. Miller, who has served as PWBA's
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy for the last 5 years, will carry out the
duties of Assistant Secretary until a permanent candidate is appointed to fill
the post.
"Meredith is the right person to assure continuity of leadership in this
most important position. She will play a major role in addressing the many
policy issues in the pension and health arena, which are among the most
important for America's workforce," said Herman. "I am particularly grateful
for all her counsel, which proved invaluable to me in carrying out the mission
of the President's Commission on Health Quality."
Miller, originally from Spring Valley, N.Y., will head an agency that
oversees approximately 700,000 private pension plans, with approximately $3.8
trillion in assets, and another 6 million welfare benefit plans. She will be
responsible for administration, policy making and enforcement of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
When Miller joined the department, she had more than 14 years'
experience working on job benefits programs for Americans. She came to the
department from the AFL-CIO, where her last position was assistant director of
the employee benefits department. She was with the AFL-CIO since 1988 and
served in other roles involving employee benefits.
From 1983 until 1988, Miller was assistant research director for
employee benefits with the Service Employees International Union and taught at
the college level for a year before that.
Miller graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts in 1977. She
earned her master's degree a year later in industrial and labor relations from
the London School of Economics in England, where she finished first in her
class.
She has served on the Labor Department's ERISA Advisory Council, the
editorial board of Business and Health Magazine and the advisory boards of the
Bureau of National Affairs Pension and Benefits Reporter and the National
Resource Center on worksite health promotion of the Washington Business Group
on Health. She holds memberships in several organizations including the
National Academy of Social Insurance and American Friends of the London School
of Economics.
Miller is author of several magazine articles, brochures and pamphlets
on pension and other job benefits, a frequent speaker before many employee
benefit industry groups and has appeared in several videos on these same
subjects.
Miller and her husband, Barton Bracken, have two children: a son,
Myles, 8, and a daughter, Madison, 6.
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