Vernon Todd Miller

Marshall University Associates Degree Paralegal

Marshall University Bachelors of Science Criminal Justice

I have been going by my middle name Todd except while in school my entire life.

I enlisted in the Army in May 1975 I did my basic training at Fort Leonardwood Missouri and my military police training at Fort McClellan Alabama. I was stationed at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah with the 65th MP Platoon and then was stationed at Fort Meyers Virginia with the 561st MP Company. I was privileged to be involved when Foreign Diplomats would hang a wreath at the The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier at the Arlington National Cemetery.

After my enlistment after swearing that I would never ever in my lifetime go back to school because I disliked school so much. In Sept 1979 I enrolled at Marshall University to obtain a Bachelors of Science Degree. I had taken some college classes while I was enlisted so with my classes I had taken, my military experience which I was given some college credits for I started as a first term sophomore instead of a freshmen. I graduated in 83 with my BS degree and started working as a M.U. Police Officer.

In 1987 I decided I wanted to pursue a career in law enforcement and move to Columbia S.C. within 2 weeks of my arrival in Columbia I was offered the position as a Richland County Deputy Sheriff and accepted the position. I worked on the road close to one year before I was sent to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Center to become a certified S.C. law enforcement officer. During that year on the road answering calls I was involved in one shooting of a suspect, arresting a murder suspect and various other misdemeanor and felony arrest.
I continuously work in LE while in Columbia but I did resign from the RCSD in 1992 and started working with the Columbia S.C. Police Department I worked there as a line officer until 1996 and was promoted to a master police officers and was sent to D.A.R.E. school and became a elementary D.A.R.E. Instructor and I was also certified as a Crime Prevention officer and was interviewed on local tv news every once and a while. In July of 1998 I returned to the RCSD and was chosen to become field training officer training deputies to prepare to work the line and prepare for the Criminal Justice Academy. In 2002 I was assigned to be a regional investigator and later that year I was promoted to criminal investigator and specialized in motor vehicle theft and recovery. I was a very active law enforcement officer during my time in S.C. until 2004 when I suffered 2 tia's on my 50th birthday.


I moved back to Huntington after I was forced to medically retire from RCSD in July of 2005. Since then I have not really been up to much except for playing video games on my p.c. and Quest Pro VR headset, reading and watching movies and tv programs that I have on two 14 tb harddrives.

I moved to Ironton, Ohio in Aug 2023 and I'm enjoying apartment living after selling my house in Huntington in 2021.

Charles Russell Elementary
Coles Junior High
Paul Blazer High
Marshall University