Board Members

Deanne Miller is the President/Chief Executive Officer of the Miller Oil Foundation which she was instrumental in starting six years ago.  She is also Secretary/Treasurer of Miller Oil Company.   
     A resident of the Tidewater area for the past 30 years she and her husband started Miller Oil Company in 1977.  Her husband Augustus (Gus) Miller is Chairman of the Board of Miller Oil Company. The Millers have three sons.  Jeffrey is President of Miller Oil, Keith is a Senior Vice President.  Their son Michael resides in Vieques, Puerto Rico.  The Millers have all been a part of this community since arriving. 
     Deanne is a member of the Board of the National Symphony in Washington, D.C.
     Locally she has served on the Board of the Virginia Arts Festival as Secretary, the board of Contemporary Art Center of Virginia Beach where she was also a docent. 
     She served as a docent at the Chrysler Museum for nine years, also serving on numerous committees of the Museum, co-chair of the membership committee and the collections committee. She and her husband are members of the Mowbray Arch Society and the Masterpiece Society which both support adding to the Museum's incredible collection. 
     Deanne has worked diligently over all the years she has been in the area for the Children's Hospital of the Kings Daughters.  As a member of the Alice Davis circle for 25 years, and chairing their Holly Ball, up to today where her Foundation's main recipient of funds each year goes to the Hospital to help sick and abused children.
     She also served for a number of years on the board of the Ronald McDonald Children's Charity and was proud to be a member of the Grant's Committee.
     Her dream for the Foundation Board materialized this year when she could count among the board members not only her husband and son, but her daughter-in-law and her granddaughter.  Now the Foundation has a firm foothold and can continue to do good work for the children of our community.

Augustus (Gus) Miller transformed a single purpose heating oil business into a diversified petroleum company providing gasoline, heating and air conditioning services and 100 service stations and convenience stores - in the short span of 25 years. Today Miller Oil Company is one of the largest privately owned petroleum and convenience store chains in Virginia.  
     The Miller family came to live in Norfolk, Virginia in 1970 as part of Gus's career with Exxon Corporation. In 1977 he left to form his own company, Miller Oil Co., Inc. He built Miller into a dynamic, nationally recognized enterprise. Along with numerous articles in national publications came appointments to corporate advisory boards including: Mobil Oil Corporation, Amoco Corporation and Exxon USA.
     Gus, CEO of Miller Oil Company, Inc., continues to build and develop the company. With his eldest son, Jeffrey Miller at the helm as company President and son Keith on board as Vice President. Gus and his wife, Deanne, spend a tremendous amount of time focused on their philanthropic interests. However, their top priority is spending time with their family including son, Michael (retired from serving as company COO) and his wife who have a B & B in the Caribbean, and their six fascinating grandchildren who live between Norfolk and Washington, D.C.
     Over the years, Gus Miller's vision, determination and high degree of energy, combined with plain hard work also attracted the attention of significant philanthropic organizations who called upon him for leadership. Through his dedication of time and resources Gus has made a significant contribution to the quality of life in Hampton Roads. 
"Gus Miller built his company by developing a strategic plan, setting it in motion, and following it step-by-step until he met his goals. These were talents he would later utilize in his service on community boards."   -- Bob Stanton, friend
     With a long history as a volunteer and contributor to The Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters CHKD), Gus has dedicated the next few years to leading its Capital Campaign. A member of the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts at the Kennedy Center, as well as honoring a board appointment to The Smithsonian Institute, Gus devotes time to representing these national treasures nationwide. He also brings programs from Kennedy Center to Hampton Roads to support the Virginia Arts Festival. Gus is immediate past chairman of the Chrysler Museum of Art and past Chairman of the Children's Health Foundation of CHKD.
     A foundation for the Miller family and Miller Oil Company is a natural outgrowth of the desire Gus Miller has for contributing back to the community that has provided so much opportunity for his family. Once again, we see Gus's skills and talents at work as the Foundation will be goal oriented, strategically planned and carried out through the work of dedicated family, staff and friends. 

Jeff Miller is President of Miller Oil Co. Inc. based in Norfolk, Virginia. Miller Oil operates a chain of 52 Convenience stores under the name of Miller Marts and Miller's Neighborhood Markets in Southeastern Virginia. The company also has an extensive dealer network as well as a home heating oil and heating and air conditioning business.
     Jeff earned a BA degree from American University in Washington, D.C. in International Relations and Economics. In 1981, after five years in the restaurant business in Washington D.C., he relocated to Norfolk and entered the family business. Jeff held numerous positions with the company leading up to being named President in 1999.
     Currently Jeff is the Chairman of the Tidewater Area Retail Merchants Association, a member of the Executive Committee of the Norfolk D'Art Center and a member of the Executive Committee of the Greater Norfolk Corporation.
     He resides in Norfolk with his wife Connie. They have three children, 11 year old Alanna, 21 year old Lindsay of Boston, MA. and 20 year old Matthew of Washington D.C. 

Lindsay Miller, a board member since 2005, is a theatre professional working as a Stage Manager for companies throughout the Washington, DC metro area.  She is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association – the union for professional stage managers and actors. Lindsay has lived and worked in Washington, DC, moving from Boston in 2004 where she graduated from Emerson College. 
     Lindsay began her theatre career as a Professional Apprentice at Imagination Stage in Bethesda, Maryland.  Here she worked in areas such as development, production, education, outreach, and marketing, to further their mission to “produce theatre and arts education programs which nurture, challenge, and empower young people of all abilities.”  She was greatly influenced and inspired by their belief in making the arts inclusive and accessible to all children, regardless of their physical, cognitive or financial status, through programs such as Deaf Access and Imagination Quest among others. 
     Since then, she has worked on productions for several companies in DC including Imagination Stage, Theatre J, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Roundhouse Theatre: all non-profit companies.  She has stage managed two in-house productions and two national tours for The Kennedy Center’s Theatre for Young Audiences programming, and company managed their American College Theatre Festival in 2006. 
     Lindsay continues to volunteer her time to non-profit and grassroots organizations in DC, and is very excited to expand her commitment to community service through the Miller Oil Foundation. In the fall of 2002, Lindsay traveled around the world with Semester At Sea, an academic and service driven program that travels to ten countries in one hundred days. Traveling to first, second, and third world countries, all in one trip, instilled in her a sense of global and community responsibility that she will advocate throughout her life and career. 

• • Deanne Miller

• • Gus Miller        

• • Jeff Miller  

• • Lindsay Miller