[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 79 (Wednesday, May 18, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E741]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            HONORING LESLIE ANN MILLER AND RICHARD B. WORLEY

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                          HON. ROBERT A. BRADY

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 18, 2016

  Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Leslie 
Ann Miller and Richard B. Worley. Ms. Miller and Mr. Worley, married in 
1987, are the deserving recipients of the Union League of 
Philadelphia's 2016 Crystal Award. The Crystal Award is presented to a 
person of distinction who by their actions has gained community or 
national prominence in the arts, or for their humanitarian efforts.
  Leslie Ann Miller is a Philadelphia attorney and was the first woman 
to be elected President of The Pennsylvania Bar Association. A 
practicing litigator for more than 25 years, she has also served as an 
advisor to Mayor Michael Nutter in Philadelphia and General Counsel to 
the Honorable Edward G. Rendell.
  Ms. Miller is active in a wide variety of non-profit and cultural and 
organizations in Philadelphia and the East Coast. She served as acting 
President of The Kimmel Center when it opened in 2001; she chaired the 
Board of Trustees at Mount Holyoke College; currently chairs the Art 
Museum Board at Colonial Williamsburg and recently chaired the 
Philadelphia 2016 Flower Show. She is a member of the Boards of: The 
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Penn Medicine; Temple Law School; The 
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; The Colonial Williamsburg 
Foundation; The Committee of Seventy and The Greater Philadelphia 
Cultural Alliance.
  A cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Ms. Miller received an 
MA from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, a JD 
from The Dickinson School of Law and an LLM with honors from Temple 
University's School of Law.
  Richard B. Worley is Managing Partner of Permit Capital LLC which he 
founded in 2002. He began his career in 1970 as an economist at Goldman 
Sachs. In 1978 he joined Miller Anderson and Sherrerd, an independent 
investment management firm in the Philadelphia area. At MAS he was 
elected Partner in 1980 and Chairman in 1988, a position he held until 
the firm was acquired by Morgan Stanley in 1996. At Morgan Stanley he 
served in several capacities including as President and CEO of Morgan 
Stanley Investment Management. Mr. Worley holds a Bachelor of Sciences 
degree from the University of Tennessee.
  Currently, Mr. Worley is the Chairman of the Philadelphia Orchestra 
Association, a position he has held since 2009. He is also a member of 
the board of directors of Neuberger Berman, a global investment 
management company headquartered in New York City, a member of the 
American Philosophical Society and a director at Philadelphia Media 
Network.
  Mr. Worley is a former trustee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 
the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine, the National 
Constitution Center and he is a former director of the Colonial 
Williamsburg Foundation, the Independence Seaport Museum and the mutual 
funds board of Putnam Investments.
  Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to join me in honoring two 
incredibly deserving individuals: Leslie Ann Miller and Richard B. 
Worley. I congratulate them on their award and thank them for their 
years of service to our community.

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