H. Carl Mueller is the founder and chairman of Mueller Communications, Inc., which serves clients with marketing, public relations and governmental affairs. He has served as a manager and adviser to a Wisconsin governor, several university presidents and a Wisconsin congressman and is a former chief of staff to the mayor of Milwaukee.

Mueller worked closely with Bud Selig, his Milwaukee Brewers club and city and state business, civic and labor leaders to win legislative approval of public financing for a new Brewers ballpark. When Selig moved on to lead Major League Baseball, he maintained a headquarters in Milwaukee and retained Mueller and his firm to work for him as commissioner of baseball.

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mueller was appointed assistant chancellor for university relations at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1979 and oversaw the development office, the UWM Foundation, and the departments of alumni relations, news services, publications and community relations.

He worked for 10 years as a newspaper reporter and editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel and The Paper for Central Wisconsin. As a newsman, he won national recognition for his work and served as a board member and president of the Society for Professional Journalists. He currently serves as treasurer of the Milwaukee Press Club.

Mueller is a member of the Greater Milwaukee Committee and has served as a board member and president of A Wisconsin African Relief Effort (Project Aware). He also is a member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Counselor’s Academy.

He has served on the Board of Directors of the Milwaukee Urban League, Children’s Outing Association (COA), the UW-Milwaukee Foundation and Alumni Association, Easter Seals, Jewish Family Services, Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast, Jewish Museum Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation, Save the Soldiers Home fundraising committee and more.

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Mueller has done graduate work at both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He also received professional training at the American Press Institute at Columbia University and at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.