Interviewer(s): D. Austin. Houma, LA

Affiliation: University of Arizona

Lynda Miller was referred to me by Lillian Miller. Both women were among the earliest female pioneers in the offshore petroleum industry and had met each other on an earlier occasion, drawn to notice one another by the similarities in their names. They are not related. One my June 2006 trip to southern Louisiana, I went to visit Lillian and learned that she had invited Lynda to her house to participate in an interview. Lynda had brought along a trunk full of am outstanding collection of photos and slides. We began with the photos and slides on the evening of June 28 and continued the interview on the morning of June 29. Malisa Mayon of the Morgan City Archives kindly assisted with the scanning of the slides during the following week.

Lynda Miller studied oceanography during college and graduate school and went to work on offshore service vessels in the Gulf of Mexico in the summer of 1972, becoming one of the first women in her position. She and her husband worked in the Gulf throughout the spring, summer, and fall of 1973. Over the next couple of years they moved back and forth between working for the offshore oil and gas industry and working on research vessels. In addition to their work in the Gulf of Mexico, they worked in Greenland and off the coast of Peru.