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Dana Fontaine Miller, known as Rick Miller (born March 19, 1945), is a retired military officer and a businessman from Sugar Land in suburban Houston, Texas, who has been since 2013 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 26, based in Fort Bend County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rep. Miller, Rick, (District 26) )〕 From 2007 to 2011, Miller was the chairman of the Fort Bend County Republican Party.〔 ==Background== Miller graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1968. Miller subsequently received a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University (NDU) at Fort Lesley McNair in Washington, D.C. He studied in the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, a division of the NDU.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=State Rep. Rick Miller District 26 (R-Sugar Land) )〕 Miller participated in the United States baseball exhibition team as a pitcher at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Thereafter, he entered Navy flight training in Pensacola, Florida. Following his training he flew LTV A-7 Corsair jets while embarked on the USS ''Independence''. Advancing to the rank of captain, Miller held leadership positions on carrier-based squadrons and at The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, where he worked on the staffs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the United States Secretary of the Navy. Miller was the Senior Fellow of the Strategic Studies Group of the Chief of Naval Operations. In this capacity, he was assigned to formulate future concepts of war for the 21st century Navy.〔 Miller received a number of military awards: Defense Superior Service Medal; Meritorious Service Award (twice), and Navy Commendation Medal and Legion of Merit (three times each).〔 After his military years, Miller was the vice president of administration with Integrated Electrical Services.〔 He also founded and is the president of TrevanionGroup, LLC, a company which seeks to train leaders and to improve leadership skills.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TrevanionGroup )〕 Miller has also lived in Dallas and Marietta, Georgia. He moved to Sugar Land in 1999, where he is a board member of Rotary International and heads the finance committee of the Sugar Creek Baptist Church, a congregation of the Southern Baptist Convention. He and his wife, the former Barbara Nesbitt (born c. 1947), have two children and a third who is deceased.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography for Rick Miller )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rick Miller (Texas politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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