RSVP Now for November 15 Luncheon
RSVP Now for November Luncheon with the Leeds Area Chamber of Commerce scheduled for 11:45 am on Thursday, November 19 at Leeds First Baptist Church.
Our speaker will be our Mayor David Miller who will share the State of the City. You will not want to miss what's going on in our great city!
Our lunch will be catered by Laney’s, menu is as follows:
Chicken and dressing
Sweet potatoes
Green Beans
Roll
Dessert
$12.00 payable at the door with, cash, check, debit or charge. Please make your reservation by noon on Tuesday, November 17th!
Please remember social distancing and don’t forget, we love door prizes!!! Hope to see you there!!!
Sandra McGuire
Executive Director
Leeds Area Chamber of Commerce
205-699-5001 wk
205-965-9392 cell
About Our Speaker
Meet Mayor David Miller: Born in Leeds and a graduate of Leeds High School, David is married to the former Sonya Hooks and lives in Cahaba Hills. He and Sonya have two sons, David and Bill and two grandchildren, Keith 15 and Saylor 12.
Following high school, David graduated from the University of Alabama with a BS Degree in Finance and after commissioning, entered the Navy’s flight school at Pensacola. He later transferred to the surface navy and went to the fleet as a Surface Warfare Officer. His surface navy career included tours at sea in destroyers and a tour in Vietnam with the River Assault Force in the Mekong Delta where he commanded a 25-boat river assault division and 225 men in combat. He earned the Bronze Star and the Cross of Gallantry with two Silver Stars and numerous other awards while in Vietnam.
Along the way he graduated from the US Air Force War College and earned a Master’s Degree in Political Science and Public Administration from Auburn University. In his last Navy tour as Commanding Officer Navy Technical Training Center Meridian, Commander Miller functioned as Superintendent of a seven school, 3000 student, Southern Association Accredited school system and earned an EdS degree in Educational Leadership and School Administration from Mississippi State University.
Finishing his 21 years of Navy service in the rank of Commander, he returned to Leeds and took a job as Asia Pacific Marketing Manager at Hayes Targets. While working at Hayes, David progressed through the management ranks, eventually becoming President in 1997. While working at Hayes, he served 8 years on the Leeds City Council and was elected Mayor Pro-tem during his second term.
David was first elected Mayor in 2012 and was recently re-elected to his third term. We have asked him to bring us up to date on the status of things in the City, tell us what his administration has accomplished in the first 8 years in office and what is planned for the future.