Many gifted classroom teachers go on to become successful politicians. One of these is Brittney Marie Miller, a middle school English teacher who now serves in the Nevada State Assembly.

Brittney was born in 1974 in Detroit, Michigan. Her father, a former Marine who served in Viet Nam, was a police sergeant in Detroit. Her mother, a former civilian employee for the US Army Tank Arsenal, was a registered nurse.

Brittney earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Saginaw Valley State University located in University Center, Michigan. She has two master’s degrees: one in public administration from Oakland University located in the cities of Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan, and the other in teaching from Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, Nevada.

For the past six years, Brittney has taught Language Arts at Canarelli Middle School in the Clark County School District in Nevada. “After years developing programs in public schools, work force development, and prisoner re-entry, I knew that becoming a teacher was one more way I could serve,” Brittney once said. “Indeed, I reduced my salary by over a third when I became a teacher, but that’s how passionate and devoted I am to service. I believe strongly in education. To build a future, we must invest in our children first,” she added.

In 2017, Brittney was elected to represent District 5 in the Nevada State Assembly, where she still serves. She succeeded Republican Assemblyman Erv Nelson who resigned from his post to run for the state Senate. As a representative, Brittney is a member of four committees: Education; Corrections, Parole, and Probation; Health and Human Services; and Judiciary.

To learn more about this accomplished chalkboard champion, check out this interview by Nevada Public Radio or her profile at Project Vote Smart.