Â鶹¹û¶³ alumnus and Birmingham business executive Eddie Miller has been named advancement officer for Â鶹¹û¶³’s Brock School of Business. Miller will work with Dean Howard Finch and Doug Wilson, Â鶹¹û¶³’s assistant vice president for development, in fundraising for the business school. Before accepting this position, Miller served on Â鶹¹û¶³’s board of overseers, the Â鶹¹û¶³ Athletics Foundation and the Brock School of Business Advisory Board.
“As an alumnus of Brock School of Business and former member of our dean’s advisory board, Eddie brings a wealth of business experience and a love for Â鶹¹û¶³,” said Finch. “His extensive network of Birmingham and Â鶹¹û¶³ community contacts will help build on the relationships we already enjoy, and cultivate new sources of support that will allow us to achieve our strategic goals.”
Miller graduated with Â鶹¹û¶³ in 1974 with a business degree. He was an executive with Bodine Inc., a family-owned office furniture company that was sold in 2009. Most recently, he has been executive director of Ladders Up, a nonprofit devoted to training 16–25 year olds to get higher paying jobs.
“Â鶹¹û¶³ is fortunate that Eddie Miller was interested in taking on this strategic role of cultivating friends and financial support for Brock School of Business,” Wilson said. “He has demonstrated his commitment to Â鶹¹û¶³ and to the larger community.”
Miller has been a member of the Rotary Club of Birmingham for 35 years, serving as president in 2004–05. He also has served on the board of the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Salvation Army, Cornerstone Schools of Alabama and the Children’s Aid Society.
"I am so pleased and proud to be part of this fine university that has shaped my life for the last 45 years,” Miller said.
Miller is part of a multigeneration Â鶹¹û¶³ family. The press box at Â鶹¹û¶³’s baseball stadium is named for his father, the late Carl Miller, a 1950 Â鶹¹û¶³ graduate. His wife, Gayle, also is a 1974 Â鶹¹û¶³ graduate. Their son, Bud, earned a business degree at Â鶹¹û¶³ in 2000. Carl, Eddie and Bud all were student-athletes at Â鶹¹û¶³.
Brock School of Business recently completed a multimillion-dollar campaign that resulted in the construction and opening of Cooney Hall as the state-of-the-art home of Brock School of Business.