Jennifer Miller Oertel Appointed Chair of the National Tax-Exempt Council’s State Regulatory Roundtable
03/24/26
Bodman PLC is pleased to announce that Jennifer Miller Oertel, Co-Chair of Bodman’s Exempt Organizations & Impact Investing Practice Group, has been appointed Chair of the National Tax-Exempt Council’s State Regulatory Roundtable.
The National Tax-Exempt Council was formed to open and maintain lines of communication between the Tax Exempt & Government Entities (TEGE) Division of the IRS and the practitioner community. The Council provides the TEGE Division with insight into practitioner perspectives on procedural and systemic matters, while offering practitioners a forum to share their concerns with the IRS regarding policies, specific tax issues, and procedures. The Council also plays an important role in educating both the practitioner and exempt organizations communities.
Miller Oertel is a nationally-recognized authority on tax-exempt organizations law and impact investing. She provides strategic business advice and practical legal guidance to a broad range of tax-exempt organizations and impact investors. She leverages her extensive business law background in securities, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate governance to further the business interests of her tax-exempt clients and the investors who support them.
Among her many accolades, Miller Oertel is listed in The Best Lawyers in America under Nonprofit/Charities Law and is also recognized in Michigan Super Lawyers and DBusiness Top Lawyers as a leading practitioner for tax-exempt organizations law. Crain’s Detroit Business has selected her as a Notable Women in Law honoree and Michigan Lawyers Weekly selected her as a Leader in the Law. She is a frequent speaker and author on legal issues affecting nonprofits. Miller Oertel serves as the expert in residence for impact investing with the Council of Michigan Foundations and serves as a fellow for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation building the impact investing ecosystem in New Jersey. She is an adjunct professor at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University.