Kent Miller - President/Business Manager

Kent Miller became President/Business Manager on September 1, 2022, following the retirement of former President/Business Manager John Schmitt, and he was unanimously elected by the delegates of the Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council to a full four-year term in August 2023. 

A third-generation member of LIUNA, Kent started his career in 2002 for a small union landscape company before starting work as a sewer and water pipelayer for both RG Huston Company and Speedway Sand and Gravel. Kent worked in the sewer and water industry for nearly a decade on projects throughout southern Wisconsin.

In 2012, Kent was hired as an organizer before becoming Assistant Business Manager of the Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council in 2015. In 2018, Kent was also appointed to serve as the LIUNA International Representative for Wisconsin. On September 1, 2022, Kent became the President/Business Manager of the Wisconsin Laborers District Council and was elected to a full four-year term in August 2023.

Kent is a member and co-chair of the DWD Construction Craft Laborer State Apprenticeship Advisory Committee, is a member of the DWD Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council (UIAC), the Chairman of the Wisconsin Laborers’ Health and Pension Funds, and sits on the executive boards of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Council.

Kent is a proud member of LIUNA Local 464 and lives in Madison, WI with his family.