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Dr. Judith Fitzgerald Miller is professor and interim dean of the College of Nursing. She received her doctoral degree in nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed a postdoctoral fellowship there in 1987. Her baccalaureate in nursing is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and she earned her master’s in nursing from Marquette University.
Her faculty appointment to Marquette began in 1971. She has been a faculty member, associate dean for academic affairs, interim dean, associate dean for graduate programs and research. In addition to her administrative role she retains her faculty status as a professor and teaches a doctoral capstone course, Vulnerable Populations, and she directs dissertations and doctoral qualifying exams.
Miller has made distinct contributions to the discipline of nursing through her program of research on psychosocial responses to chronic illness and through the resulting publications including three editions of her book, Coping with Chronic Illness: Overcoming Powerlessness. A series of five studies on hope beginning with exploratory, qualitative designs and evolving to studies using triangulated methods have been completed. Most noteworthy in the hope studies has been the development and psychometric testing of the Miller Hope Scale. The publication in Nursing Research describing the instrument development process has been used as a model by other researchers. Other studies on hope have substantiated the importance of family hope and client hope in adjustment to chronic illness.
Miller has received funding for research and nonresearch projects from sources such as: National Institutes of Health, National Center for Nursing Research, United States Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services-Health Resources Services Administration Advanced Education in Nursing, American Nurses’ Foundation, Alzheimer’s Association, Bader Foundation, and the National League for Nursing as examples. Currently she is submitting a proposal to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing to complete a study of graduate nursing programs for non-nurses, their students and state boards of nursing in which these programs are found. She has disseminated the findings in 43 publications and through over 100 presentations internationally, nationally, and regionally.
Judith Miller’s professional leadership is noted by her officerships in Sigma Theta Tau International (Research Committee member and chair), Publications Committee member and chair of the Journal of Nursing Scholarship Review Committee. She held offices in ANA Council for Nurse Researchers and the Midwest Nursing Research Society. She was appointed to the national Task Force on the Implementation of the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Currently she serves on the CNL Certification Advisory Board and on the newly formed CNL National Steering Committee.
She has focused on improving health of a select community in Milwaukee County as a member of the Board of Health and Senior Commission, both appointed by the Mayor. Her emphasis on health promotion also enabled her to be a resource for the Australian Council of Community Health Nurses as well as the Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada.
Her dedication to enabling disadvantaged students to obtain graduate degrees is noted through her success in obtaining the Department of Education Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship to support minority graduate students. She was involved with implementing a federal earmark to Marquette University to increase numbers of underrepresented students in nursing and engineering in cooperation with a technical college.
UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
- Ms. Rana H. Altenburg
- Ms. Cynthia M. Bauer
- Dr. Margaret L. Bloom
- Mr. Roby Blust
- Dr. William E. Cullinan
- Mr. Steven J. Cottingham
- Dr. Robert J. Deahl
- Dr. Dennis Garrett
- Ms. Tricia Geraghty
- Dr. William A. Henk
- Dr. Stanley V. Jaskolski
- Mr. Joseph D. Kearney
- Mr. Greg Kliebhan
- Mr. John C. Lamb
- Dr. William K. Lobb
- Dr. Judith Fitzgerald Miller
- Dr. John J. Pauly
- Dr. John Pustejovsky
- Dr. Ellen B. Rudy
- Ms. Stephanie Russell
- Mr. Arthur F. Scheuber
- Dr. David L. Shrock
- Mrs. Janice Simmons-Welburn
- Dr. Jeffrey T. Snell
- Rev. Andrew J. Thon, S.J.
- Ms. Julie Tolan
- Dr. William R. Wiener
- Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J.
Quick Facts About Marquette
| Identity: | Catholic, Jesuit, private |
| Established: | 1881 |
| Location: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Undergraduate: | 8,048 |
| Postgraduate: | 3,500 |
| Campus: | Urban, 90 acres |
| Athletics: | 14 NCAA Division I teams (Big East) |
| Colors: | Blue and Gold |
