Deputy Lord Mayor - Councillor Jess Miller

Councillor Jess Miller is currently the Deputy Lord Mayor (2025-2026) of the City of Sydney for the second time, and was first elected to the City of Sydney Council in 2016. Her vision for Sydney is that it remains Australia's pre-eminent City with a reputation for livability, innovation, fairness, and fun. 

On Council, Jess is the Deputy Chair of the Transport, Heritage and Planning Committee, a member of the Cycling Advisory Panel and Co-Chair of the Creative Industries and Nighttime Industries Advisory Panel. Formerly a TEDxSydney curator,  speaker and board member, she has also served on the board of the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre and currently sits on the National Art School board. 

Her ambition this term is to shift the City’s “lazy spaces” into places of collaboration and gathering for people across Sydney, by introducing reforms to turn unused space into affordable housing, and retail and making spaces for the creative industries. A longtime advocate of green spaces and parks, Jess also focuses on the adaptive re-use of commercial buildings, and the urban greening of public spaces and laneways. Maintaining the City's track record of stable, corruption-free governance and good, strong financial management is her foundational priority. 

Having represented the City at the C40 Summit, Jess is aware and interested in resilience initiatives to fund adaptation strategies to protect homes and businesses from impacts of urban heat and flood. 

Professionally, she brings 20 years’ experience in strategic communications across the private, non-profit and government sectors. Through agencies like the Republic of Everyone, and Finding Infinity, Jess has designed and implemented strategic collective impact projects that finance new projects to support the circular economy, increase urban greening, and enable communities to engage and participate fully in decisions and initiatives that affect their lives. 

Jess has lived in the City of Sydney for 25 years in Alexandria and more recently Glebe, is a member of the Legacy Brazilian Jiu Jitsu team, a kickboxer and supporter of the Greater Western Sydney AFL team and the Melbourne Demons. 

Jess speaks Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish and is always happy to communicate with constituents in both.