Posted on 10/03/2005 5:19:55 AM PDT by Former Military Chick
Oct. 3, 2005 Harriet Ellan Miers is White House counsel and was formerly President Bush's personal lawyer in Texas. She first served in the White House as staff secretary and was deputy chief of staff before she was named counsel upon Alberto Gonzales' transition to attorney general.
When he was the governor of Texas, Bush once publicly introduced Miers as a "pit bull in size 6 shoes."
Born and raised in Dallas, Miers earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics and her law degree from Southern Methodist University. In addition to her legal career, she served one term on the Dallas City Council.
Miers, 60, broke barriers for women throughout her career. She reportedly was the first woman hired by the prestigious Dallas law firm Locke Purnell Boren Laney & Neely, where she became a successful commercial litigator. She also became the first female president of the Dallas Bar Association in 1985 and was the first woman elected president of the Texas Bar Association in 1992.
Miers met Bush in the 1980s, according to published reports, and she was counsel for his 1994 campaign for governor. He appointed her chair of the Texas Lottery Commission in 1995.
Miers then was president of Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell and co-managing partner of Locke Liddell & Sapp before she joined the White House in 2001.
In addition, Miers was named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Lawyers by the National Law Journal in 1998, and she received numerous other awards from groups including the Dallas Women Lawyers Association, the Anti-Defamation League and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers.
She's pro-choice? Source? If true- UGH.
or maybe you have a tube of your own??????????
I just need to know one thing to distrust her: Harry Reid likes her.
How do you know that she is not?
Holy Spirit led? Does she support partial birth abortion?
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Even if we have 60, we still have the pro- choice RINOs. Maybe 70 would be safe and that is virtually impossible
Get a grip.
Well, if nothing else qualifies her, the fact that she ran a state lottery commission should server her very well on the SC.
Al Gore was pro-life until the second Bill Clinton asked him to join his ticket in 1992.
I am another disappointed conservative. I voted twice for George Bush, and I must confess that he fooled me. I think conservatives should strongly oppose him on a number of different issues. Bush is simply too liberal for me. He is not a true conservative. I support a "no" vote on this nomination.
Read some of the things Scalia wrote while a law professor.
Listen to some of the speeches Janice Rogers Brown has made.
In three years Bush is gone and she has some 20 years to do what she wants on the Court, it is quite a gamble.
Who are you to judge anyone's faith????????
LOL!...maybe both are true. :D
And this is news to you? :-)
In 1988, she donated money to Al Gore & Lloyd Bentsen's political campaigns. Doesn't sound very conservative to me.
http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Harriet_Miers.php
This is bull$*&t. I've been counting on him nominating Janice Rogers Brown. I figured all along that's who it would be, and then I could get some popcorn, sit back, and watch the cRATS be stuck with having to attack a qualified black woman. Yet another disappointment from the 'majority' party in a long line (and getting much longer of late) ever since about 1996.
I hope you are right. I am not encouraged by what I see, but you make an excellent point that President Bush knows her even if the rest of us do not. Thank you for posting some encouraging thoughts! I am worried enough to need them! The fact that the Democrats deemed her "acceptable" gives me major heartburn, though.
I think this might be an interesting pick. Harry Reid's support is immaterial to me; he probably thinks that because she is a single woman she is liberal. I think it is interesting that she was a mathematics major in undergrad.
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