IP member Clyde Miller is new chair of Campaign Finance Board

Clyde Miller, a Cambridge attorney, has been elected chair of the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board for 2003. He is the first Independence Party member to hold this position. Miller was appointed in February 2002 by Governor Jesse Ventura, and confirmed by the House and Senate, for a term ending in January 2006. Miller is a partner and shareholder with Jennings, DeWan, Miller & Anderson, L.L.C., a law firm that concentrates on civil matters, including many involving municipal and general governmental issues, employment law, workers¹ compensation, contracts, products liability, personal injury, and other civil law matters. He is a 1984 graduate of William Mitchell College of Law. He was named a qualified neutral by the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1997 and is a volunteer supervising attorney for the Lawyers Board of Professional Responsibility. He served as a member of the Governor¹s and Citizen¹s League Task Force on Property Tax Reform. The Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board was established by the state Legislature in 1974 and was charged with the administration of the Ethics in Government Act. The board's four major programs are campaign finance registration and disclosure, public subsidy administration, lobbyist registration and disclosure, and economic interest disclosure by public officials. The board has six members, appointed by the Governor on a bipartisan basis for staggered four-year terms. The appointments must be confirmed by a three-fifths vote of the members of each house of the Legislature. Douglas Kelley, a Republican, served as board chair in 2002.

Released: 1/27/03