Mrs. Miller is a founder and the senior consulting actuary with Select Actuarial Services.  With more than 20 years of property and casualty actuarial experience, she provides actuarial consulting services on several major accounts and is additionally responsible for the professional development of the other members.  Her expertise is frequently called upon to assist clients in making decisions regarding the maintenance and design of their risk management programs.

Prior to the formation of Select Actuarial Services, Mrs. Miller was the Senior Vice President and Chief Actuary for five years at Sedgwick Actuarial Services.  As Chief Actuary she performed a wide spectrum of actuarial studies and also managed the actuarial staff.  Before joining Sedgwick in 1993, Mrs. Miller was reinsurance actuary with American States Insurance Companies, where her duties included pricing within the Reinsurance Division, as well as the design and development of specialized software targeting property catastrophe exposures, case reserving for automobile and workers' compensation long-term disability claims, and evaluating treaty commutation proposals.

Mrs. Miller graduated with highest honor from the Honors College at Michigan State University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Mathematics and Linguistics.  She is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter.  She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (UK) in 2005.  She has been an active contributor to the actuarial profession since achieving fellowship in 1988, and has chaired the CAS Professionalism Education Committee, the Education Policy Committee, and task forces on mutual recognition and future education planning.  She was Vice-President for Admissions of the Casualty Actuarial Society from 2000 to 2002, President-Elect in 2003, President in 2004, and she chaired the CAS Board in 2005.  She has been a member of the Boards of Directors of the American Academy of Actuaries and the Conference of Consulting Actuaries and currently serves on the Academy’s Committee on Qualifications and its Casualty Practice and Professionalism Councils.  As a member of the Actuarial Standards Board subcommittee on reserves, Mrs. Miller was a drafter of the United States standards of practice for reserve opinions (#36) and unpaid claim estimates (#43).  She currently chairs the International Actuarial Association’s Education Committee.

Career Experience

• Founding Member of Select Actuarial Services in 1999
• Senior VP and Chief Actuary, Sedgwick Actuarial Services, 1993-1999
• American States Insurance Company, 1984-1993

Professional Activities

• Vice President of Admissions of the CAS, 1999-present
• CAS Representative, International Actuarial Association Education Committee, 2001-present
• American Academy of Actuaries Committee on Qualifications, 1999-present
• Actuarial Standards Board Subcommittee on Reserving Standard, 1997-1999
• Frequent speaker at PRIMA, RIMS, CAS Loss Reserve Seminar and several state-sponsored captive and self-insured organizations

Education

• Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Mathematics and Linguistics, Michigan State University
• Obtained FCAS designation in 1988, CPCU in 1995, Associate in Reinsurance in 1993, Associate in Management in 1994

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