Deborah Miller
Deborah Miller joined the firm in 2004, after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law with a certificate in environmental law. She is a partner at the firm. Her practice emphasizes public agency representation.
Deborah represents the Transbay Joint Powers Authority in San Francisco, and is counsel for the Authority’s Board of Directors meetings. She has experience advising clients regarding public contracting, ethics, and open government issues. Deborah has litigation experience in state and federal court on a variety of land use and environmental matters, including representing public agencies defending challenges to public transit and solar power projects. Deborah represents public agencies bringing litigation challenging proposed airport development and the rules governing liquefied natural gas expansion. And she represents public agencies bringing condemnation actions for redevelopment, transit, and other public projects, including projects in San Francisco and Alameda counties. Deborah also advises clients in administrative proceedings before the state and federal public utilities commissions.
While in law school, Deborah clerked for the Solicitor’s Office of the United States Department of the Interior. She was the head articles editor of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law’s Ecology Law Quarterly, and published pieces regarding air quality and environmental justice.
Deborah is a member of the Bars of the State of California, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.