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West Tennessee Commissioner

 

Nancy Miller-Herron

Nancy Miller-Herron
Commissioner
Dresden, Tennessee

 

Nancy Carol Miller-Herron was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1956 and grew up in Memphis and Jackson. Miller-Herron graduated from Lambuth University in 1978 with a B.A. in religion. She received her M.Div and J.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University in 1983.


Since 1991, Miller-Herron has had a general civil practice in Dresden, Tennessee and is an approved mediator by the Tennessee Supreme Court. She was appointed Commissioner of Claims for the Western Division effective March 1, 2003.


Miller-Herron serves on the Board of Governors of the Tennessee Bar Association and on the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Religion. For six years beginning in 1994, Miller-Herron chaired the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati, a wholesale bank for Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio and has served on its board for nine years. She also is a founding member of the board of her local Habitat for Humanity affiliate.


Miller-Herron was one of the first graduates of Vanderbilt's joint law-divinity program. Following graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey and taught law and divinity students as an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt University.


Miller-Herron and her husband, Roy Herron, have three sons, John, Rick and Benjamin. They live in Weakley County.