Editor's note: This story has been updated to include Michael Miller's full name.

Four months after the departure of Police Chief Mike Holder, Colleyville City Council announced it had hired a new police chief.

Michael Miller will be inducted as the Colleyville police chief May 23. A swearing-in ceremony for the community will be held June 1.

Miller has served as the assistant police chief in Coral Gables, Florida, for the past five years. He has 26 years of various law enforcement experience, including working with the FBI, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Wise County Sherriff’s department in Decatur, Texas.

“I’m using those experiences to kind of help just lead the way of me getting up to speed and learning the ways of the new organization,” he said. “… I’ve got enough experience to know that when I come into a new organization and observe how they do things, most times I find that, that organization does things much better than what I’ve seen before. So my mind is open. I just take an objective look at things and I just ask a lot of questions. That’s my way of learning. So that, I think, is a key experience that I think is going to help that learning and transition.”

Miller said he is taking this position as an opportunity to return to his Texas home.

“I’m a fifth-generation Texan,” he said. “… We had been out of the state for a number of years and at five years in Coral Gables. … The idea of going back to Texas to be near [my wife’s and my] families was in the back of our minds. It’s a bittersweet thing to think about leaving, but the opportunity to go back home was also equally interesting.”

Miller said the appeal of working in Colleyville comes with the benefits of being in a large metropolitan area, but also getting to bring his family to a small-town environment.

“To raise my family in that type of culture, where we would be supported and where there would be opportunities for great education, was just a win-win for us,” he said.