Leslie Anne Miller
American politician
Leslie Anne Miller is a Pennsylvania attorney and philanthropist who served as General Counsel of Pennsylvania under Governor Ed Rendell.
She was named to the PoliticsPA "Power 50" list of influential individuals in Pennsylvania politics in 2003. The Pennsylvania Report named her to the 2003 "The Pennsylvania Report Power 75" list of influential figures in Pennsylvania politics. She was also named to the PoliticsPA list of "Pennsylvania's Most Politically Powerful Women."
She has also served on the boards of directors of multiple arts organizations and educational institutions, including the Pennsylvania Ballet and Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Miller was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
Formative years and education
A native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Miller graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1973, and was awarded a master's degree in political science from the Graduate School of New Brunswick at Rutgers University in 1974. While at Rutgers, she was awarded a fellowship by the Eagleton Institute of Politics.
That same year (1974), she also earned her Legum Magister (master's degree in law) from Temple University.
Legal and public service career
A practicing attorney with more than 25 years of experience representing clients in civil litigation and mediation matters in the state courts of Philadelphia, the five counties surrounding Philadelphia, and the Eastern and Middle District Courts of Pennsylvania, Miller's expertise in civil litigation and mediation was recognized with a partnership by the Philadelphia law firm of McKissock & Hoffman, P.C.
A member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, she was appointed chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's House of Delegates, Commission on Women in the Profession, and Young Lawyers Division before being appointed as that state bar's first female president.
In January 2003, she was appointed General Counsel of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by Governor Edward G. Rendell.
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