Eric D Miller

Eric Miller is a partner in the Seattle office of Perkins Coie LLP, where he serves as the Chair of the firm’s appellate practice. He is also a part-time lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law. He has argued more than 60 appeals, including 16 in the Supreme Court of the United States. Before joining the firm in 2012, Mr. Miller served for five years as an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Office of the Solicitor General within the Department of Justice, where he received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award. Before joining the Office of the Solicitor General, Mr. Miller served as Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission. He previously served in the Department of Justice as an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel and as a member of the Appellate Staff in the Civil Division. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Miller served as a law clerk to Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and later as a law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Miller earned his A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard University and his J.D. with highest honors from the University of Chicago School of Law, where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif and served as the topics and comments editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.