Gayle Miller

Gayle Miller serves as the chief deputy of policy at the California Department of Finance. Ms. Miller has been a senior policy advisor for the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration since 2018. She was deputy controller and director of policy in the Office of the State Controller from 2017 to 2018. She served as a principal consultant in the Office of the California State Senate President pro Tempore from 2016 to 2018. She held several positions in the California State Senate, including consultant in the Office of Research from 2014 to 2016, staff director for the Governance and Finance Committee from 2006 to 2014, and principal consultant at the Revenue and Taxation Committee from 2001 to 2005. She was director of government affairs at Anthem Blue Cross from 2005 to 2006, legislative director in the Office of Assemblymember Alan Lowenthal from 1999 to 2001, and legislative aid and Assembly fellow in the Office of Assemblymember Tom Torlakson from 1997 to 1999.

Ms. Miller earned a Master of Business Administration degree in strategy and communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Business Administration degree in economics and finance from Columbia University.