In the summer of 2024 the RFC lost a founding member of the Board and a dear friend when Bruce Miller died after a battle with cancer. Bruce served on the Board for more than 30 years, from 1990 until his death. Bruce cared deeply about the families we worked with and, along with his wife Jane, who served as the RFC’s bookkeeper for our first 20-plus years, was always ready to do what was needed to help out.
Bruce worked as a staff attorney for the National Senior Citizens Law Center (NSCLC) before moving to the east coast in 1980 to join the faculty at Western New England University School of Law in Springfield, Mass. In his 40-plus year career at WNEU Bruce taught Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Jurisprudence, and Civil Procedure while mentoring generations of students (including RFC Founder Robert Meeropol).
In recognition of Bruce’s deep commitment and importance to the RFC, and in collaboration with Bruce’s family, the RFC Board decided to create a new fund at the RFC: The Bruce Miller Legacy Fund. Each granting period, the Board will identify several grants to activist parents whose efforts are focused on issues, communities or priorities that were especially meaningful to Bruce. The family will select one of these grants, which will be designated as the Bruce Miller Legacy Fund grant.