- Miller was born in 1975 in Illinois. According to remarks he delivered at his Senate confirmation hearing in 2018, his father grew up on a dairy farm in Colorado. His mother was raised in the suburbs of Chicago. The family moved to San Raphael when Miller was a child.
- Miller studied physics at Harvard University, graduating in 1996. After working for a lawyer while home from college one summer, he decided to go to law school. Before clerking for Thomas, he worked in the chambers of Judge Laurence H. Silberman on the D.C. Circuit. He next worked in government, including as an appellate staff attorney in the civil division of the U.S. Department of Justice, as an attorney-adviser at the Office of Legal Counsel, as deputy general counsel at the Federal Communications Commission and as an assistant to the solicitor general. In 2012, he joined Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle. In 2017, he became chair of the firm's appellate practice.
- During his career as an advocate, he argued more than 60 appeals, including 16 before the U.S. Supreme Court.
- his wife, Teal Luthy Miller, ... heads the appellate section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington.
Also of note: 'Free PACER' Bill Advances to Full Senate on Bipartisan Vote:
- The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill to make PACER free for most users on a bipartisan basis.
- The bill would create a new electronic case management system for the federal judiciary.
- The House passed a similar bill during the last Congress, and the legislation has been reintroduced.
Bloomberg's article is here.
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