J.Dudley Miles, III

CEO, J.D. Miles & Sons, Inc.

Dudley Miles has moved into the position of Chairman of the Board. His focus has shifted from day to day operations, to that of a more “global” focus for the companies. Dudley grew up in the roofing business, but pursued a teaching and coaching career for six years after graduating with a pre-medical degree from Hampden-Sydney College in 1966.

Dudley has served a President of Chesapeake Better Business Club, the Chesapeake Rotary Club, the Tidewater Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute, and the Virginia Association of Roofing Contractors. He is Past President of the National Roofing Contractors Association, the oldest trade organization in the United States. NRCA represents 4000+ roofing contractors across the nation and has offices in Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Over the past thirty years Dudley has presented papers and discussed current technology at over 100 roofing conferences and seminars with contractors, superintendents, owners, and architects in attendance across the United States and abroad. He is a past chairman of the Board of Regents for the Roofing Industry Educations Institute, a Denver based corporation serving to educate all segments of the roofing industry. Dudley was bestowed with the J.A. Piper Award (the NRCA’s highest honor) in 1997. Virginia Association of Roofing Contractors inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2004.