peaceably and pursuant to federal court orders. Bond joined the education faculty at Norfolk State, where she taught for 31 years. She became a professor and head of the Department of Early Childhood/Elementary Education, before retiring in 1999 and assuming emeritus status. She was also a life member of National Education Association, served on the boards of the National Alliance of Black School Educators (and was a life member) and Virginia Association for Early Childhood Education, and was active in the Association of University Women, American Association of University Professors (board member). She hosted a public affairs radio show in Norfolk for many years. Political career Miller began to get involved in politics, joining the Democratic Party, although it had long been dominated statewide by the Byrd Organization. Her concerns for education and minority rights made her an "outspoken advocate for Virginia's poor and minorities in the General Assembly". She would later be called the conscience of the Democratic caucus. In 2010, Miller and Louise Lucas succeeded in having Virginia recognize the Nottoway as among the state's remaining Native American tribes. In 2012, Miller spoke out against efforts by the state legislature to require voters to bring new identification documents to polling places, claiming this was a Jim Crow-like requirement intended to suppress black voting. In 1983, Miller became the first black woman to be elected to the Virginia House of Delegates She won re-election and served two terms (from 1984–88). In 1987, she ran and was elected to her first four-year term in the Senate of Virginia. The first African-American woman in Virginia to serve in each house, she was consistently re-elected to the Senate (last facing an opponent in 1995) and died in office. Miller most recently represented the 5th state senate district, which since 1971 and a redistricting, has been made up of parts of the independent cities of Norfolk, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach. At the time of her death, Miller was the longest-serving woman in the Virginia Senate, ranking 4th in overall seniority. She gained a seat on the budget-writing Finance Committee. Due to repeatedly being re-elected, she gained seniority. In 1996, she became the first woman to chair a Senate committee, gaining the chair of the Transportation Committee. Personal life Miller married and took her husband's surname. She was a lifetime member and an Evangelist Missionary in the Church Of God In Christ, Inc., and