
Career Highlights: Appointed U.S. District judge by President Bill Clinton, May 27, 1997 (assumed senior status June 6, 2010); San Diego Superior Court judge, 1987-97; deputy attorney general, California, 1968-87.
Law School: UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, 1967
SAN DIEGO — For Jeffrey T. Miller, the seeds of his legal career began on baseball fields in Los Angeles. There, the now senior U.S. District judge developed skills that as a teenager caught the attention of a neighbor who enlisted him to coach his young sons.
A few years later, the neighbor, Daniel Kaufmann, resurfaced in what Miller describes as a personal bout of good fortune. Fresh from UCLA School of Law, Miller ap... (continued)