Mary J. Miller
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Mary John Miller is a United States
United States
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 banker who has been Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets
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 since February 2010.

Biography

Mary J. Miller was educated at Cornell University
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 receiving a B.A. in Government
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 in 1977. She then attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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 and received a Master of City and Regional Planning.

After college, Miller worked as a research associate at the Urban Institute
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 in Washington, D.C.
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  She then joined T. Rowe Price
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 in 1983. She spent the next 26 years at T. Rowe Price, rising to become director of the Fixed Income Division.

In 2010, President of the United States
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 Barack Obama
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 nominated Miller to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets
The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury who heads the Office of Financial Markets....

. She assumed that office in February 2010. In November of 2011, Miller was included on The New Republic's list of Washington's most powerful, least famous people.
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