Port gets new director

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Amy Miller, the Port of Pensacola's chief financial and human resources officer, has been named director by Mayor Ashton Hayward. She's the first female director since the port's inception in the mid-1700s, and the only woman currently serving as port director in Florida. Miller takes over from Clyde Mathis, who joined the port as director in 2006 and resigned. Miller worked at ports in South Louisiana and Gulfport, Miss., and joined the Pensacola port in 2002 as manager of business and trade development. (Source: Pensacola News Journal, WEAR-TV, 11/20/13)