United States Representative Brad Miller (NC) will speak at Elon Law on Monday, April 23, at noon in Room 105.
Representative Miller will speak on current events and issues before the 112th Congress. This presentation is open to students of Elon Law. Lunch will be provided.
RSVP required. Space is limited. Law students interested in attending should RSVP to lattitude2012@aol.com.
About Congressman Brad Miller
Miller holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master’s degree from the London School of Economics, and a law degree from Columbia University. He served as law clerk to Judge J. Dickson Phillips, Jr. of the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals for one year following his graduation from law school, and practiced law in Raleigh for more than twenty years before his election to Congress.
Miller was elected the Chair of the Wake Democratic Party in 1985, when he was a third-year law student. In 1992, he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives, where he served two years. He was elected to the North Carolina Senate in 1996, where he served six years. As a member of the state legislature, Miller wrote North Carolina’s safe gun storage law, which curbed juvenile gun deaths.
Miller is serving his fifth term from North Carolina’s thirteenth Congressional District. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2002, Miller currently serves on three subcommittees on the House Financial Services Committee – Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE); Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee; and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.
Miller also serves as Ranking Member of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee and is a member of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee on the House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology.
Miller has received national recognition as a strong and consistent advocate for working families in his push for stronger consumer protection laws. He has also written a Bankruptcy bill to try to help save family homes.
On August 14, 2010, the New York Times wrote of Miller, “He is worth getting to know, not only because of his deep concern about the foreclosure epidemic, but also because he has made a compelling recommendation to level an exceedingly tilted playing field in mortgage finance. Depending upon your perspective, Mr. Miller is either the right man in the right place on Capitol Hill — if you’re a consumer — or a threat to the status quo.”
Miller spearheaded the effort in the House to pass a national Anti-Predatory Lending law and a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau bill that were included in the Wall Street Reform Act signed by the President.