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.
I was hoping that it would be Luttig or at least JOnes
Well I sure hope you are right, and I do respect your opinion very much.
My experience with Bushes and stealth nominees just haven't been that great over past decade or so.
I noticed that MSNBC.com states: "Bush picks an insider" while FOXNews.com simply says: "Bush picks Miers". Gives me the impression he might have made a decent choice if the MSM is already trying to sway the issue.
I hope you're right.
This is another masterstroke (and unexpected) by Bush.
I hope you're right. We'll see how she does before the committee.
Oh, gosh. Thank you!
I meant to type that Gore was pro life in 1988. THANK YOU!
f this woman is an unabashed follower of Christ then I'm sure this is not only a good pick, it is Holy Spirit led.
Maintaining balance means we lose...we only have 2 real conservatives there now, 1 leaning that way, 2 moderates and 4 liberals
Agreed. She is an impossible nomination. But that's the greatest part! This is Bush's attempt to screw the dems HARD by making them shoot down a nomination they gave him! Bush should be ridiculed for this choice. The problem is, so will the democrats be if they do not prevent her approval. Now they are in an uncomfortable position indeed.
This is a wedge between the dem senators and THEIR OWN voters. If they allow confirmation, they are guilty of that in the eyes of the dem voters, and we get our nominee approved. If they block confirmation, then the next nominee is a Jurassic Conservative (RARRR!) and the democrats have already used up their "reasonable" objections. They can't block the second one. The genius is that they are hamstrung on the FIRST one, too!
ROVE, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!
Or maybe it was just a bad week for GWB to stop sniffing glue.
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I find it interesting that her undergraduate degree was in mathematics. This indicates someone who is trained in logic.
I'm more than aware of that.
That's my point.
From where I see things right now, it looks like we lose with this nomination.
I hope Miers proves me wrong.
Hutchinson is such a voice of reason. Always calm and reassuring.
is there anything wrong with the social sciences?
The AP says, Miers is leading the White House effort to help Bush choose a nominee to the Supreme Court.
Yikes.
Excuse me... Wasn't Dick Cheney helping pick the VP for President Bush? Didn't he turn out to be the best we could have gotten???
It is disgusting, isn't it?
Very disappointed by the nomination. The "stealth" pick may be needed if the Senate was Democrat run, but there are 55 Republicans. Show some leadership, d-mnit. Use that majority.
Janice Rogers Brown or Edith Jones would have been better women picks.
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