National Football Foundation

Founding president of the Commonwealth Chapter in 1998, Joe Miller has quickly positioned the chapter as one of the most active and productive in the nation.
 
Creative is the word that best describes Miller and the Commonwealth Chapter, as they annually stage approximately 15 different programs that aid and assist kids from 80 public and private high schools across 39 counties in Virginia. In addition to their successful scholar-athlete banquet, the chapter holds the Willie Lanier Senior College Night, the Lou Anderson Combine, and the Leadership, Life and Sportsmanship Conference. The chapter also developed the novel idea of staging a fishing tournament for high school and college coaches to raise scholarship money. The chapter's inventiveness has resulted in more than 300 new members and $20,000 in scholarship money.
 
A 1965 graduate of Cornell University, Miller played three years of football on the Big Red's lightweight varsity team. He went on to earn a Master's degree in hospital administration, while serving as a graduate assistant football coach on the freshman squad.
 
After acquiring his final degree from Cornell, Miller became a unit sales manager for Procter & Gamble Company and was eventually promoted to national recruiting manager for the soap division. He went on to work at Liggett & Myers and then Ocean Spray Cranberries before branching out on his own to create a sports drink company. Ten years ago, he founded the Richmond-based Sales Resource Group, a merchandising services firm, which he recently sold.
 
For the past eight years Miller has devoted considerable time officiating high school football games in the Richmond area Joe has four children and two grandchildren.