Phyllis Miller

Phyllis has served on the LGP Board since July 2022. She is a tireless advocate of rural issues and was the first, and only, woman to be elected President of the NSW Shires Association in its 100-year history.

She is currently the President of Local Government NSW, Mayor of Forbes, Board member of Central West Organisation of Councils, Chair of National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council, and Board member of the Australian Local Government Association.

She has worked as a partner in a successful stock and station agency, in real estate, an auctioneer business, and dry land and irrigation farming enterprises for 30 years. She has succeeded with these, and many other achievements, while raising five children. She is always up for a challenge, gives her time freely to others, and loves having fun with her family and friends.