PHOTO GALLERY: Southern District Commissioner Karen Miller campaigns for re-election

October 30, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CDT

Boone County Southern District Commissioner Karen Miller has been campaigning for re-election. During the past several months, she has been talking with her constituents, hosting fundraisers and putting up campaign signs.

Boone County Southern District Commissioner Karen Miller participates in the candidate forum hosted by the League of Women Voters on Oct. 9 at the Columbia Public Library. Miller is seeking her seventh term as a commissioner. | Yi-Chin Lee

Boone County Southern District Commissioner Karen Miller puts out signs Oct. 12 in her district in Columbia. Miller made contact with the property owners before she drove around Columbia for about an hour and a half to put up her signs. | Yi-Chin Lee

Boone County Southern District Commissioner Karen Miller, left, has a brief conversation with Dawn Thurnau at the Mature Living Festival hosted by the Boone County Council on Aging on Oct. 5. Miller is one of the board members for the Council on Aging, and she knows Thurnau through their work together as volunteers. | Yi-Chin Lee

Boone County Southern District Commissioner Karen Miller shows pictures of her family to Jaclyn Houser during a fundraising event for 4th Congressional District candidate Teresa Hensley. Miller hosted the event Oct. 10 at her home in Columbia where she lives with her partner, David Brown. | Yi-Chin Lee

Southern District Commissioner Karen Miller talks to Barbara Beckmeyer, left, and Orion Beckmeyer at the Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival on Oct. 13. Miller sees the festival as an opportunity to meet and talk to people in her district. | Yi-Chin Lee

Boone County Southern District Commissioner Karen Miller, center, has breakfast Oct. 6 at Cafe Berlin in Columbia. She is joined by her partner David Brown, left, and her friend Kathy Perry. | Yi-Chin Lee