Miller Named City Manager

At Thursday night’s East Ridge City Council meeting, Scott Miller was appointed City Manager.

Miller previously served as City Manager from 2016 to 2018 before announcing his retirement. Miller returned to the position in November of last year, accepting the position of Interim City Manager when Chris Dorsey resigned.

“We want to thank Mr. Miller for graciously offering his services to our city as Interim City Manager back in November,” East Ridge Mayor Brian Williams stated in a press release. “With his extensive knowledge of East Ridge as a previous City Manager and his vast experience, we achieved a seamless transition of management at City Hall.

“I am very happy and excited that Mr. Miller has accepted the position of City Manager and I am looking forward to working with him to accomplish the many projects that are needed in East Ridge for our citizens.”

Miller possesses more than 40 years of experience in city management. Prior to coming to East Ridge, Miller had served eight years as City Manager in Leavenworth, Kansas. Before that, he served as City Manager in College Park, Ga., outside of Atlanta.

During his tenure as City Manager for East Ridge in 2016-18, Miller played an instrumental part in the city’s economic growth and accomplishments as a border region city.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.