James C. Miller III James C. Miller III of McLean, an economist, is a counselor to the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation. He is a John M. Olin Distinguished Fellow at the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation and at the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University. He also is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a member of the boards of the Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Tax Foundation, and the Progress and Freedom Foundation. On the Board of Visitors, Miller serves on the Faculty and Academic Standards Committee, the Finance and Resource Development Committee of which he is Chair, and the Audit Committee. Miller is a former member of President Reagan's cabinet and the National Security Council. He served as director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1985 to 1988 and as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission from 1981 to 1985. In 1994 and in 1996, Miller was a candidate for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate from Virginia. Miller is a director of LECG - Economics - Finance, a consulting firm with offices in Washington, D.C. and other places; chairman of the board of Economic Impact Analysts, a family-held consulting firm; and member of the board of Atlantic Coast Airlines, the Washington Mutual Investors Fund, the Tax-Exempt Fund of Virginia, the Tax-Exempt Fund of Maryland, and the Growth Fund of Washington. Miller graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.B.A. in Economics, and from the University of Virginia with a Ph.D. in Economics.