About Aruna K. Miller

Aruna K. Miller of Germantown, Maryland, lieutenant governor of Maryland and former Maryland state delegate, earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Missouri S&T in 1989. Miller was born in India and came to the United States at age 7 and grew up in Ballwin, Missouri. Upon graduation, she worked as a traffic engineer for the Los Angeles County public works in California. After marrying her college sweetheart, David Miller, a 1989 S&T electrical engineering graduate, they moved to Maryland where she worked for 25 years for Montgomery County Departments of Transportation and Permitting Services, retiring from Montgomery County government in 2015. Miller is a former two-term member of the Maryland House of Delegates, serving from 2010 to 2019. She served on the House Ways and Means Committee and in her second term, the House Appropriations Committee. In 2018, Miller ran for the U.S. Congress in Maryland’s 6th District and finished second in a field of eight candidates. On Nov. 8, 2022, Wes Moore and Miller were elected by a landslide as governor and lieutenant governor of Maryland, earning the most votes of any gubernatorial candidates in Maryland’s history. Moore is Maryland’s first black governor and Miller is the first Asian American, first immigrant, first woman of color, and first engineer to become lieutenant governor of Maryland. Miller previously served as a board member for the Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation, Round House Theatre, The Universities at Shady Grove, Montgomery Parks Foundation, Madison House Autism Foundation.