Dorothy Antoinette Handy-Miller (1930 – 2002) was an American flautist, music scholar, arts administrator, and writer.

[3] The following year, she joined the Music Viva Orchestra with her sister, Geneva Handy Southall, going on tour in Germany, which was sponsored by the United States Information Agency.

[4][5] She was a flautist with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra from 1966 until 1976, later forming the chamber group Trio Pro Viva with the cellist Ulysses Kirskey and the pianist Russel Wilson.

[4] She authored the biographical reference Black Women in American Bands and Orchestras and a profile on the influential female jazz group Darlings of Rhythm titled The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, as well Black Conductors and a biography of Ellis Marsalis titled Jazz Man's Journey.

[4][6][7] She was named a Ford Foundation Fellow in 1971, researching black music in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

[4][3] She retired from the National Endowment in 1993 to join the faculty of Jackson State University in Mississippi.