J.W. Miller

J.W. "Jim" Miller has spent four decades in the sports world as both a journalist and executive. He began his career in 1970 as a reporter at the Louisville Courier-Journal and then as a reporter and editor at the Baltimore Evening Sun. In 1981, Miller was hired by the National Football League as chief information officer in its labor relations office and was owners' spokesman during the 1982 player strike. He moved on to the New Orleans Saints in 1986 as vice president of administration, then to the Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears in similar capacities before becoming athletic director at the University of New Orleans in 2003. Miller guided the UNO program through the ravages of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, years that saw the Privateer baseball team win the Sun Belt Conference championship and the men's golf and volleyball teams challenge for conference honors. Miller retired from UNO in August, 2009 to return to writing and has just completed a book on his battle to keep UNO athletics alive despite the effects of Hurricane Katrina. The native of Clark Station, Kentucky, has degrees from the University of Kentucky and the University of Maryland. He lives in New Orleans with wife Jean, daughter Layne, 16, and son Charles Connor, 15. Daughter Lindsay lives with her husband Andrew Scanlon in Falls Church, VA.