Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer

Sue Miller is a leading Liberal Democrat with a history of forthright campaigning

Sue Miller went to the Quaker school, Sidcot in Somerset and Oxford Polytechnic where she studied book publishing. Her subsequent career in books included working for Penguin, David and Charles and Weindenfeld and Nicolson and ten years as the joint proprietor of two bookshops.

Elected as a councillor, she served at parish, district and county levels from 1987-2005. South Somerset District Council won the first ever 'Council of the year' under her leadership for its radical decentralisation. At Somerset County Council she concentrated on rural strategy.

She was nominated a Life Peer in 1998 becoming Party Spokesperson in the Lords on Environment, Agriculture and Rural Affairs taking a lead for the Party on dozens of Bills including the Countryside and Rights of Way, Energy , Water , Natural England and Rural Communities , Animal Welfare and the Hunting Act. Her continuing interest in civil liberties issues however has resulted in the Party asking her to change roles and she is now Chief Lord's Spokesman on Home Affairs.

Other positions and interests include joint Chair of the APPG on Street Children, Vice-Chairman of APPG Food and Health,a vice president of the Council for National Parks, BTCV,Wildlife and Countryside Link and Patron of Somerset Food Links. In 2005 she won the PRASEG award for the Peer who had made the greatest contribution in the field of renewable energy.She has an interest in Central and South American countries and is Vice Chair of the APPGs on Latin America, Mexico and Bolivia.

She believes the House of Lords plays an essential role in British democracy but that it must become a more balanced chamber in terms of age, gender and regional representation and is reformed to become an elected chamber.

She lives In Bideford, Devon where she and Humphrey spend any free time gardening (vegetables), sailing, walking and reading.

Sue believes that with the second highest tidal range in the world in the Severn Estuary, the potential for marine renewable energies should be addressed seriously by the government

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