Meredith Miller

She was formerly the Acting Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor for the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration during the Clinton administration, and has also held roles at the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), the AFL-CIO, the Connecticut State Treasurer’s office, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) Retiree Medical Benefits Trust.  ^{2  1}

Amalgamated Bank

In 2022, the labor union-aligned and formerly union-owned Amalgamated Bank of New York announced that it was appointing Meredith Miller to its board. In its press release announcing her appointment to the board, Amalgamated Bank credited the “particular significance” of Miller’s experience in board diversity; environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing; and sustainable investing.  ³ Amalgamated Bank CEO Priscilla Sims Brown also noted Miller’s “advocacy for diversity in corporate America, improving disclosure rules on human capital management, and proposals on climate risk assessments.”  ³

Activism at UAW Retiree Medical Benefit Trust

Meredith Miller spent 2010 to 2021 as the Chief Corporate Governance Officer of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Retiree Medical Benefits Trust, a position created in 2010 to manage the health care benefits of retired UAW members who had been employed by Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler Corporation (and its successors DaimlerChrysler, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and Stellantis). ⁴ At the time of its creation, the Trust was the largest non-governmental purchaser of retiree health care in the United States. ⁴ During Miller’s time as the UAW Trust’s Chief Corporate Governance Officer, it became a major force in left-of-center shareholder advocacy including ESG activism, especially in health care policy and corporate governance. ⁵

During Miller’s tenure, the UAW Trust helped launch the Midwest Investors Diversity Initiative (MIDI), a coalition of 11 left-of-center pension and union funds with roughly $1 trillion in assets. ^{5  6} In 2020, Miller spoke on behalf of MIDI to Crain’s Detroit Business, saying, “We’re really one of the first investor coalitions in the country to include race and ethnicity in the push for companies to increase and enhance board diversity.”  ⁵ In 2025, the Illinois State Treasurer’s website claimed that MIDI had “engaged 91 companies on the issue of board diversity” and that “Among the companies engaged, 143 women and persons of color have received board appointments (111 women and 75 persons of color, including 42 women of color); 66 companies now publicly disclose board diversity data; and 76 companies have adopted a policy to include diverse candidates in the search process.” ⁶

Government Positions

Between 1999 and 2010, Meredith Miller was the Assistant Treasurer for Policy in the Office of the Connecticut State Treasurer in the administrations of Governors John G. Rowland (R) and Jodi Rell (R), where she directed the corporate governance of the state’s retirement plans and trust funds.  ^{1   7} In that role, she claims to have assessed outside fund managers responsible for investing state pension fund assets using environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles. ¹

During the administration of President Bill Clinton (D), Miller served in a variety of roles in the U.S. Department of Labor, including Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary. In the latter role, she led the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) (now the Employee Benefits Services Administration), which oversees private pension and welfare benefit plans and is responsible for the enforcement of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).  ^{1  2}

Early Union Career

Before joining the Labor Department as the PWBA Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Miller had been the assistant director of research for employee benefits for the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) and the assistant director of the AFL-CIO Department of Employee Benefits. ¹