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Harriet
Miers Biography
- Harriet Miers
was born in Dallas, Texas on August 10, 1945.
- Ms.
Miers received her bachelor's degree in Mathematics in 1967 and J.D.
in 1970 from Southern Methodist University.
- Upon
graduation, she clerked for U.S. District Judge Joe E. Estes from
1970 to 1972.
- In
1972, Ms. Miers
became the first woman hired at Dallas’s Locke Purnell Rain
Harrell.
- In
March 1996, her colleagues elected her the first female President of Locke, Purnell, Rain
& Harrell, at that time a firm of about 200 lawyers.
She became the first female to lead a Texas firm of that
size.
- Locke,
Purnell eventually merged with a Houston firm and became Locke
Liddell & Sapp, LLP, where Ms. Miers became Co-Managing Partner
and helped manage an over-400-lawyer firm.
- Ms.
Miers had a very distinguished career as a trial litigator,
representing such clients as Microsoft,
Walt Disney Co. and SunGard Data Systems Inc.
- Throughout
her career, she has been very active in the legal community and has
blazed a trail for other women to follow.
·
In 1985,
Ms. Miers was selected as the first woman to become President of the
Dallas Bar Association.
·
In 1992, she became the first woman elected President
of the State Bar of Texas.
Ms. Miers served as the President of
the State Bar of Texas from 1992 to 1993.
·
She
played an active role in the American Bar Association. She was one of
two candidates for the Number 2 position at the ABA, chair of the House
of Delegates, before withdrawing her candidacy to move to Washington to
serve in the White House. Ms.
Miers also served as the chair of the ABA’s Commission on
Multijurisdictional Practice.
- On
numerous occasions, the National Law Journal named her one of the
Nation’s 100 most powerful attorneys, and as one of the Nation’s
top 50 women lawyers.
- Ms.
Miers also has been involved in local and statewide politics in
Texas.
·
In
1989, she was elected to a two-year term as an at-large candidate on the
Dallas City Council. She
chose not to run for re-election when her term expired.
·
Ms. Miers
also served as general counsel for the transition team of
Governor-elect George W. Bush in 1994.
- Ms.
Miers came to Washington D.C. in 2001 and began a period of
distinguished and dedicated service that continues today.
·
She was appointed to be Assistant to the President and
Staff Secretary on January 20, 2001.
·
In 2003, Ms. Miers was promoted to be Assistant to the
President and Deputy Chief of Staff.
·
Ms. Miers has served as Counsel to the President since
February, 2005.
- She
is single
and very close to her family: two brothers and her mother live in
Dallas and a third brother lives in Houston.
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