TERRY L. MILLER  

A native of Parkersburg , West Virginia , Terry Miller served 31 years with the Wood County Sheriff’s Department, before retiring as a Lieutenant.  Miller was tapped in 2005 by Cabinet Secretary Jim Spears of the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety to assist in the reorganization and establishment of the Homeland Security State Administrative Agency in the Office of the Secretary.  Miller and his staff facilitate the coordination of the state’s homeland security grants and programs to ensure compliance with allowable uses of the funding as well as conformity with the state’s homeland security goals and strategies. Miller is responsible to oversee the states homeland security planning.  He works closely with the state and local law enforcement agencies, as well as other first responders, state and local elected and appointed officials, and the eleven Regional Planning and Development Councils. Miller also serves as the Acting Director of the State’s Regional Response Program which is managed by the State Fire Marshall .  

Miller earned an Associate Degree in Law Enforcement from Parkersburg Community College and a Baccalaureate Degree in Law Enforcement and Corrections from West Virginia State College.  He is currently serving on his sixth year as President of the West Virginia Deputy Sheriff’s Association. He is a board member of the Law Enforcement Training Subcommittee of the Governor’s Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Corrections, and serves on the West Virginia Investment Management Board. He is a former  member of the West Virginia Consolidated Public Retirement Board, past Vice-President of the Parkersburg Fraternal Order of Police and past Vice President and past President of the Wood County Deputy Sheriff’s Association.

Miller received the 1999 Presidential Citation and the 2001 Meritorious Service Award by the West Virginia Deputy Sheriff’s Association and he was named the 1999 Law Enforcement Officer of the Year by the Blennerhassett Lodge #79 of the Fraternal Order of Police.

Miller is a veteran of the United States Air Force and is a Life Member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He is a member of the Moose Lodge, the American Legion, and the Fraternal Order of the Eagles.