John Miller

Pandemic-program role: Deputy Associate Administrator in SBA's Office of Capital Access during PPP, the career official supporting the Associate Administrator on loan-program policy, technology and operations.
Institution · office: SBA · Office of Capital Access (Deputy Associate Administrator) · Type: career
Tenure (relief-relevant): Joined SBA in 1999; Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Capital Access, in post as of the agency's November 2020 transition briefing.

The job (role mechanics)

Level / appointment: Career official; Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Capital Access.
Reports to: The Associate Administrator for Capital Access (William Manger in the briefing that records the structure, then Kelley) and up to the Administrator.
Core responsibility: As the transition briefing puts it, Miller "supports Associate Administrator William Manger in leading Office of Capital Access loan program policy, technology, operations and oversight, including: the agency's flagship 7(a) and 504 Loan programs, the PPP Loan Program, Surety Bond Program, Microloan Program, and the SBA's $835 billion portfolio of direct and guaranteed loans."¹
Immediate-office duties: The same briefing lists him in OCA's immediate office as liaison to large lender relationships, coordinator of OCA employee training and staffing, alongside Deputy Associate Administrator William Briggs.¹

Who they are

John A. Miller is a career SBA official in the Office of Capital Access. The agency's 2020–2021 transition briefing, updated November 24, 2020, lists him as Deputy Associate Administrator under Associate Administrator William M. Manger.¹

Career before the pandemic

Per the transition briefing's leadership bio: Miller previously served as Director of Financial Program Operations, responsible for SBA's loan operations centers and portfolio management. He joined SBA in 1999 as a commercial loan specialist in the Seattle District Office. Before that he served nine years at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as a financial analyst in Irvine, California and San Antonio, Texas.¹

Role in the pandemic relief programs

The transition briefing places the PPP Loan Program inside the portfolio Miller supported at the deputy level, together with the 7(a), 504, Surety Bond and Microloan programs and SBA's $835 billion portfolio of direct and guaranteed loans.¹

Documents written or signed

No interim final rules or signed Federal Register documents under his name were located; the PPP and EIDL rules carry the Administrator's or Acting Administrator's signature. No standalone congressional testimony under his name was located in first-party sources.

Career after / where they are now

SBA's Office of Capital Access page, captured September 18, 2026, lists Thomas Kimsey as Associate Administrator and Dianna Seaborn as Deputy Associate Administrator, and does not name Miller.² The sba.gov biography page for Miller returned HTTP 404 when checked on September 18, 2026, so his current status is not established here.

Sources held in this archive

Original source documents and archived captures

Isabella Casillas Guzman — administrator over the Office of Capital Access in the program's second year.
William Manger — led the Office of Capital Access when PPP launched.

Sources (first-party)

SBA, "Transition Briefing for the incoming administration, 2020–2021" (leadership bios updated Nov. 24, 2020). Archive: SBAtransBriefBiden_2020-2021.pdf · Transition Briefing for the Incoming Biden Administration — U.S. Small Business Administration (original: governmentattic.org) ↩
SBA, "Office of Capital Access," captured Sept. 18, 2026. Archive: sba-office-of-capital-access-leadership_2026-09-18 · Office of Capital Access (U.S. Small Business Administration) (original: sba.gov) ↩