The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) has announced that Naomi Miller is to become At-Large-Director of the IES Board of Directors. Miller will fill the position vacated by Dawn De Grazio who has newly been appointed as the Society’s technical editor.
Miller has a 30-plus year career in lighting as both a designer—she has received a number of lighting design awards for her diverse portfolio of work that includes churches, university science buildings, boutique hotels, supermarkets, and parking lots—and a researcher. Since 2009 she has been a senior lighting engineer in the solid-state lighting program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Portland, Ore. There she works to “…bridge the gap between technology and application…”.
In her work with the IES, Miller has served as the chair of the IES Quality of the Visual Environment Committee for eight years. She was also a principal author for the IES document Light + Design: A Guide to Designing Quality Lighting for People and Buildings (DG-18-08). Miller is both a Fellow of the IES and a Fellow of the International Association of Lighting Designers. She received a Bachelor of Science in Art and Design (Architecture) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and a Master of Science in Lighting from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Rensselaer, N.Y.
