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.
That is not to say she will not have writings to review but this really does put a snag in things should folks have wanted feisty hearings.
OK, OK, one can hope, we are dealing with some really unfair minded democrats.
Bush consulting with 80 senators says something for this nomonee.
bttt
All I can say is that this is a very disappointing nomination.
Miers, 60....
This is the biggest problem with her. She's not going to be on the Court very long.
How so? I can't find too much about her, so I have nothing to really go by.
Yikes.
I must have missed the amendment that gave the Senate the authority to appoint justices.
What Bush needed was a monster battle in the Senate, ending the nuclear option, not a stealth nominee.
If he wanted to get the base behind him and energized before 2006, he should have picked a strict constructionist, he has not done that here.
Its been a bad few months for the President and he had a chance set the news agenda and get all that crap off the tv for a while.
There are charges of cronyism going around about Brown over at FEMA and the INS director, and he goes and picks his personal lawyer? What was he thinking?
At best Miers maintains the balance of the Court, and that is best case scenario.
I was promised Scalias and Thomases when I put down thousands of dollars and numerous hours for this man to be President. I was satifisfied with Roberts, but Miers is bush league.
Didn't he learn from his father's mistake on Souter?
No, thank you. I'm not hopeful of anyone who has such involvement with the ABA.
For many here, based on how they have responded to this, that may not be a bad thing.
She apparently was on the board of Exodus Ministries, the convert-the-homos group.
From where things stand right now, its looking like an asset.
...the 'RATs are going to "BITCH", no matter who GWB nominates...
IOW, The 'Rats bluff has worked..."NO RB, Always playing it safe". :(
...the 'RATs are going to "BITCH", no matter who GWB nominates...
IOW, The 'Rats bluff has worked..."NO RB, Always playing it safe". :(
Perhaps this is a setback but can only help us in the next election cycle in selecting conservatives over RINOs.
"Didn't he learn from his father's mistake on Souter?
Since he was raised as a one world socialist he probabaly doesn't think that Souter was a mistake.
Got to #3 before the Donner Party showed up!
Heard on Bill Bennett's show. It might *not* be the same Exodus Ministries (isn't that Exodus International). Bush apparently mentioned that work in his speech.
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