Robert S Milligan

Robert S. Milligan is chairman of the board of directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Executive Committee. Previously, he served as U.S. Chamber Midwest regional vice chairman. Milligan also serves as chairman of M.I. Industries, an animal and meat protein processing company based in Lincoln, Nebraska, which produces nutritional pet products as well as biological and pharmaceutical products. Production takes place in the United States and in the Netherlands, China, and Brazil. M.I. Industries sells its nutritional pet products throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Milligan is a member of the World President’s Organization and the CEO Organization. He also serves on the President’s Council of the National Association of Manufacturers and on the National Advisory Council for the Boy Scouts of America. Milligan is international president of CBMC, a Christian marketplace ministry to business and professional leaders in 90 countries around the world. Milligan graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a bachelor’s degree in vocational agriculture and agricultural economics and has a jurist doctorate in corporate law from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He started his career with the White House Office of Trade Negotiations and at the Department of Commerce as a deputy assistant secretary for policy development. Milligan is married to Cynthia Hardin Milligan, dean emeritus of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Cynthia is also active in business. She serves on several boards, including Wells Fargo Bank, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Raven Industries, The Gallup Organization, Colonial Williamsburg, and Prison Fellowship Ministries. The Milligans have been married for 41 years and have nine children, including a daughter-in-law and three sons-in-law as well as eight grandchildren.