Rabbi Heather Miller serves as rabbi and director of education at Beth Chayim Chadashim in Los Angeles, CA. She also serves as commissioner of the first-ever Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors' Sheriff’s Civilian Oversight Commission. Prior to this, she served as adjunct professor at the American Jewish University, Educator at Temple Israel of Hollywood, and dean of students and middle school rabbi at Milken Community Schools, all in Los Angeles, CA. In July 2018, she will return to Temple Beth El of South Orange County to serve as rabbi after having previously served the community as Associate Rabbi from 2008-2010.  

She was named a Giant of Justice by Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) in 2018, a Fellow for the Edah Rabbinic Leadership Program for the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles in 2016, and a Liberty Hill Foundation Leader to Watch in 2013. 

She holds a BA from Wellesley College, and an MAHL and Rabbinic Ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. Her words have been been featured in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, LA Times, ReformJudaism.org, the Orange County Register, and interfaithfamily.com.  

In her spare time, she enjoys time with her wife and their two children.