Gail Miller is the owner and immediate past chair of the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies, which began with a single Toyota store in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has grown to over 80 businesses with more than 60 dealerships in seven western states.
Gail works hard at enriching lives and giving back to the communities in which the Larry H. Miller Group conducts business. She gives freely of her time and is involved in many business and civic and educational activities over a large geographic area. Some of those commitments include serving as the chair of the Board of Trustees of Intermountain Healthcare, as a member of the Zions Bank advisory and Shelter the Homeless boards and co-chairing the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute’s Advisory Board. She is the author of the book Courage to Be You: Inspiring Lessons from an Unexpected Journey. Gail has been recognized with a number of public honors, including the Salt Lake Chamber’s highest honor, A Giant in Our City, and the Congressional Award Foundation’s prestigious Horizon Award. She also has five honorary doctorate degrees.
The Miller family has created a strong legacy of enriching lives and giving back to the communities in which they do business. Gail presides over the Larry H. Miller Education Foundation and the Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Foundation, which support a wide range of charitable, educational, and humanitarian causes.
In 2012, Gail married Kim Wilson. Kim is an emeritus attorney with Snow, Christensen & Martineau, one of Utah’s traditional law firms, organized in 1886, where he practiced law for 46 years. He is co-founder and chair of the Ensign Peak Foundation, formerly the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation. He is also a member of the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Board of Trustees, the Salt Lake Community College Board of Trustees, the Clark Planetarium Advisory Board, and the Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo Executive Committee, and he is involved in a number of other civic causes and endeavors. Kim earned both his bachelor’s degree in political science and Juris Doctor degree from the University of Utah.
Gail was honored as our 2019 Distinguished Utahn, and her and Kim enjoy traveling, history, serving others, and spending time with their large family. They make their home in Salt Lake City, Utah.