Lorraine Miller
The NAACP has tapped a longtime civil rights activist to serve as interim president and CEO while the organization searches for a permanent replacement to outgoing president Benjamin Todd Jealous.
Lorraine Miller is the first woman to fill the president-executive secretary’s role since 1916 and the first to serve in an interim capacity, TheRoot.com reports. A member of the NAACP board of directors, Miller has served as president of the Washington branch and was also the first African-American clerk of the House of Representatives, where she worked from 2007 to 2011.
Miller will assume day-to-day responsibilities beginning Nov. 1. Jealous announced in September that he would step aside.
“She comes into this position with two decades of experience working for the U.S. House of Representatives and an even longer career in civil rights advocacy and policy,” Jealous said in a statement.