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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000066382-18-000014
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20180306

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			MILLER HERMAN INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000066382
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	OFFICE FURNITURE [2520]
		IRS NUMBER:				380837640
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MI
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0528

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		855 E MAIN AVE
		STREET 2:		PO BOX 302
		CITY:			ZEELAND
		STATE:			MI
		ZIP:			49464-0302
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6166543000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		8500 BYRON RD
		CITY:			ZEELAND
		STATE:			MI
		ZIP:			49464

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	MILLER HERMAN FURNITURE CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19690610

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	MICHIGAN STAR FURNITURE CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19671116

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	STAR FURNITURE CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19671116
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<div><a name="s6c75c86edf874920af6dcb2e20f1ae40"></a></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">March 6, 2018</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">Ms. Melissa N. Rocha</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">Senior Assistant Chief Accountant</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">Division of Corporate Finance </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">Washington, DC 20549-4631 </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"></font><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">RE: Herman Miller, Inc. </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Form 10-K for the Year ended June 3, 2017</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Filed August 1, 2017</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">File No. 1-15141 </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">Dear Ms. Rocha: </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">This letter is in response to the comments of the staff (the &#8220;Staff&#8221;) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") in your letter dated March 1, 2018 with respect to the above referenced filing. The comments from your letter are set forth in bold font below and are followed by our response. </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Form 10-K for the year ended June 3, 2017 </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates, page 35 </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Goodwill and Indefinite-lived Intangibles, page 35 </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:48px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;padding-left:24px;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">1.</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">We have read your response to comment 5 in our letter dated January 31, 2018. You have indicated that the percentage by which the fair value of the Consumer reporting unit exceeded its carrying value was 15% as of June 3, 2017. To the extent you consider this percentage, or any future change in this percentage, not significantly in excess of carrying value, please provide the disclosures requested in our prior comment 5.</font></div></td></tr></table><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Response:</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">As of our annual assessment date of April 1st, 2017, we did not consider any reporting units to be at risk of failing step one of the impairment test pursuant to ASC 350. For the Consumer reporting unit, we reached this conclusion based on the 15% excess of reporting unit fair value over its carrying value as well as our sensitivity analysis over the key valuation assumptions used in the quantitative goodwill impairment test. Based on these results, we concluded that additional disclosures around the Consumer reporting unit valuation were not required. However, we acknowledge the enhanced disclosure requirements, as noted in your previous comment, when a reporting unit is at risk of failing step one of the impairment test. We continue to monitor the fair values and carrying values of all of our reporting units, including the Consumer reporting unit, and will make the necessary disclosures should future events negatively impact key assumptions to the goodwill impairment test that would indicate that a reporting unit is at risk of impairment. </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Acknowledgment </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">In connection with our response, we acknowledge the following: </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:48px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;padding-left:24px;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">&#8226;</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; </font></div></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:48px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;padding-left:24px;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">&#8226;</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and </font></div></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:48px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;padding-left:24px;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">&#8226;</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. </font></div></td></tr></table><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">We hope that the foregoing sufficiently responds to your comments. If you have additional questions or comments, please feel free to contact me at 616-654-8538. </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">Very truly yours, </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">/s/ Jeffrey M. Stutz</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">Jeffrey M. Stutz</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">Chief Financial Officer</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;">(Duly Authorized Signatory for Registrant)</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div>	</body>
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