Judith Miller is a Clinical Professor of Law in the University of Chicago Law School’s Federal Criminal Justice Clinic. The Federal Criminal Justice Clinic is the nation’s first legal clinic devoted to representing indigent clients charged with federal felonies, pursuing impact litigation in federal criminal cases, and engaging in systemic reform of the federal criminal system. Professor Miller shared the University of Chicago’s faculty Diversity Award in 2025 with Professor William Baude for their new seminar, Litigating Originalism. In 2020, the Clinical Legal Education Association awarded the clinic its Award for Excellence, in recognition of the FCJC’s groundbreaking race discrimination impact litigation. In 2016, Professor Miller, another clinical professor, and their trial team were also awarded an Excellence in Pro Bono Service award by the Federal Bar Association and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois for their work on a federal civil rights trial.

Prior to joining the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Miller was a Trial Attorney at the Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc. where she represented indigent defendants accused of federal felonies from arraignment through appeal. Professor Miller also clerked in Miami, FL, for the Hon. Judge Rosemary Barkett, of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Both before and after clerking, she worked as a union-side labor lawyer for the law firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC, in Washington, DC. She received her JD from Yale Law School and an MA in Political Science from Yale University.