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MILLER, Thomas J. (Dubuque, IA, August 11, 1944- ). Iowa Attorney General. Miller was elected attorney general on November 7, 1978, and was reelected in 1982. A graduate of WAHLERT HIGH SCHOOL (1962) and LORAS COLLEGE (1966), Miller received his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard in 1969.
Miller served in VISTA from 1969 to 1970 and was a legislative assistant to U.S. Representative John Culver from 1970 to 1971. Miller taught at the University of Maryland School of Law and worked in the Baltimore Legal Aid Bureau from 1971 to 1973 before returning to McGregor to practice law. Under his leadership, the attorney general's office actively pursued cases of consumer fraud in Iowa.
In 1990 Miller was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for his party's nomination to run for the governorship of Iowa.