Judge mike miller biography
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Oral History/Interview
Mike Miller December, 2012
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Bruce: So, you were on SNCC staff from ...?
Mike: Mid '62 to the end of '66.
Bruce: OK. Well, why don't you start, with how you got involved in politics. What you did before you joined SNCC, and how you joined SNCC.
Mike: Well, it was in my mother's milk. My folks were both left-wingers. My dad was, I suppose you'd say some kind of a Monthly Review magazine Marxist. He did some labor education work with the fisherman's union out here which is one of the unions that was expelled from the CIO as "Communist-dominated." So I grew up with values about justice and equality.
Bruce: And that was here? The Bay Area?
Mike: Yeah, San Francisco. I was born in San Francisco, 1937. So then, as all kids do, I rebelled against my parents and thought I was going to be a businessman. So that lasted about six months. I then went to U.C. Berkeley, and still the McCarthy Era is pretty pervasive, that Silent Generation label.
Bruce: What year did you go to Berkeley?
Mike: I went to Berkeley in '54.
Bruce: Right in the heart of the McCarthy period.
Mike: Yeah, so the University YMCA — Stiles Hall — was a little island of political discussion and more opennes
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The Honorable Mike Miller (D)
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Judge Mike Miller is 58, married and has 2 children. He grew up in LaPorte and graduated from LaPorte High School in 1972. He then graduated from Southwestern University and the University of Texas Law School and was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1980. He was a criminal prosecutor and defense lawyer in Dallas and Galveston for his first 8 years in practice.He then did both civil defense and plaintiff�s work in Houston for the next 20 years and was AV rated. During those 28 years he tried 140 criminal and civil jury trials. He became board certified in criminal law in 1988 and then personal injury trial law in 1993, with recertifications in personal injury trial law in 1998, 2003 and 2008. He was voted into the American Board of Trial Advocates as an Advocate in 2009.
He was elected in 2008 to serve as a Harris County state civil district judge in the 11th District Court. Since May, 2009 he has been the designated Harris County �Hurricane Ike judge� handling all pretrial matters for the several thousand residential Hurricane Ike cases filed in Harris County. In May, 2012 the Texas Supreme Court MDL Panel appoint
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