M Miller Baker

Miller Baker serves as a litigation partner and co-chair of the appellate practice group in the Washington, D.C., office of McDermott Will & Emery, LLP, where he has practiced for the last seventeen years. As an appellate attorney, Mr. Baker has argued appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court and nine of the thirteen Federal courts of appeals. As a trial attorney, Mr. Baker has appeared in State and Federal trial courts in seventeen states and the District of Columbia. Earlier in his career, Mr. Baker served as counsel to Senator Orrin Hatch on the Senate Judiciary Committee and at the Department of Justice as a special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Policy. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Baker served as a law clerk to Judge Thomas G. Gee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge John M. Duhé, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. A native of Louisiana, Mr. Baker attended Louisiana State University and earned his J.D. from Tulane University Law School. From 1986 to 1994, Mr. Baker served as a Naval Reserve intelligence officer in the Selected Reserve and earned an Honorable Discharge.