Elections 2022 In December 2021,
Wes Moore selected Miller as his running mate in the Democratic primary of the
2022 Maryland gubernatorial election. The ticket defeated Republican nominees
Dan Cox and Gordana Schifanelli in the general election on November 8, 2022. Miller is the first
South Asian woman elected lieutenant governor in the
United States, Miller served as the chair of the transition team for Governor-elect Moore.
2026 On September 9, 2025, Moore announced that he would run for re-election with Miller as his running mate in
2026.
Tenure Miller was sworn in on January 18, 2023. She took the
oath of office on the
Bhagavad Gita, making her first lieutenant governor to do so. In February 2023, Miller became the first woman of color to chair the
Maryland Board of Public Works meeting after Governor Moore recused himself from a vote related to a contract between the
Maryland Department of Health and
Under Armour, a company he has financial holdings in. In October 2024, Miller and Comptroller
Brooke Lierman presided over the Board of Public Works, marking the first time in Maryland history in which only women presided over the meeting. Miller was an at-large delegate to the
2024 Democratic National Convention, pledged to
Kamala Harris and served as a member of the DNC Rules committee. Miller traveled out of state to battleground state of Michigan in support of the
Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign In the
2024 presidential election, Miller voted as an elector pledged to Harris.
Highway work zone safety During her tenure, Miller has worked on issues involving transportation issues, including mass transit projects like the
Red Line and
Purple Line, and in promoting
STEM education. In April 2023, following a car crash that resulted in the deaths of six highway workers, Governor Moore appointed Miller to chair the Work Zone Safety Work Group. This group was tasked with developing policy recommendations to prevent future work zone accidents. Under Miller's leadership, the Work Zone Safety Work Group proposed several key measures, including modifications to existing state laws to authorize the use of unmanned cameras in work zones and increased penalties for speeding in these areas. These recommendations were incorporated into the Maryland Road Worker Protection Act of 2024, which Miller testified for in both houses of the Maryland General Assembly. The bill was subsequently passed and signed into law by Governor Moore. In early 2025, following implementation of the new work zone speed enforcement law, Maryland issued over 48,000 speeding citations in work zones within the first two months. During National Work Zone Awareness Week, Miller emphasized the law’s purpose, calling reckless driving “a dangerous weapon.” Following the resignation of Maryland Transportation Secretary
Paul Wiedefeld in July 2025, Miller was tasked with leading a nationwide search for his replacement.
Substance abuse prevention As lieutenant governor, Miller chairs the Maryland Overdose Response Advisory Council, which is involved with efforts to reduce overdose deaths and expand access to treatment. In this position, she has overseen the launch of a statewide overdose data dashboard to provide real-time data and guide policy interventions. In 2025, Maryland recorded its fourth consecutive year of declining overdose deaths in the state, which had also fallen to a ten-year low.
Alleged ties to Hindutva (left) campaign for Moore and Miller (right) In October 2022,
The Intercept reported that Moore and Miller were honored at a fundraiser hosted by individuals associated with
Hindutva, or a
Hindu nationalist political ideology. The fundraiser occurred after the Moore campaign added a page to its website highlighting Miller's record on supporting Muslim communities and religious freedom, accompanied by the statement, "There is not one dollar in this campaign that has anything to do with the Hindutva movement or international politics." In August 2023,
Salon reported that Miller had accepted at least $110,000 in contributions from individuals connected to the Hindutva movement since 2011, but noted the same donors implicated in criticisms of Miller routinely contributed to other Democrats across Maryland, though officials and candidates who are not of Indian descent rarely received criticism for accepting these contributions. In a November 2022 interview with
Bethesda Magazine, Miller denied participating in fundraisers with Hindu nationalists, and said that she felt an unfair spotlight had been focused on her because she is Indian-American and grew up in a Hindu-Christian household. In June 2023, during Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's state visit to the United States, Miller tweeted a statement in support of efforts urging President
Joe Biden to press Modi on the issue of
human rights. she attended a
White House dinner hosted in Modi's honor. In July 2023,
The Independent reported that party officials acting on behalf of Miller had retaliated against people who alleged she had ties to Hindutva, including an instance where a Democratic central committee member claimed that he was threatened by the chair to alter his vote supporting Susan Kerin, an activist who alleged Miller had ties to Hindutva. Another activist claimed that in 2018, he lost his job for criticizing Miller, and another claimed they lost their party position. Miller, in statements to
The Independent, denied these allegations and presented evidence disproving one of the claims. The chair of the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee, Saman Qadeer Ahmad, denied she threatened the committee member on his vote. == Political positions ==