Character Name: Austin Miller
Character Gender: M
Character Age: 53 (b. June 5 1964)
Character Height: 6 feet 4 inches
Character Weight: 180
Character Position/Role/Job: Deputy Attorney General
Appearance:
Character State of Origin: FL
Character State of Residence: Washington, DC
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Main Strengths: Responsible, dedicated/determined, experienced, has argued Supreme Court cases, great debater.
Main Weaknesses: Stubborn, temper, not very good at public speaking (he is okay at it).
Biography:
Early Life-
Austin Miller was born in Washington D.C. in 1964, and he was interested in politics from a young age as a result. His grandparents immigrated to the U.S. and worked low-paying jobs, but his dad graduated from NYU and became a corporate lawyer, and Miller followed his footsteps by graduating Harvard Law School in 1989. He got married to his wife Sofia in 1996.
Legal Career-
In 1990, a year after working for his dad, Miller became a General Attorney at the FBI and held the position for two years, before he became bored. When asked why he quit the FBI in a town hall style campaign rally, he said “they wanted me to provide counsel and maintain the legality of federal investigations. When I became a lawyer, I wanted to fight battles in a courtroom, not advise an agency.” Shortly after, with a recommendation from the Deputy Director of the FBI, Miller was hired by the Solicitor General to serve as a lawyer in the Office of the Solicitor General in December 1992. He helped prepare arguments for the Solicitor General in several Supreme Court cases in 1997, before the Solicitor General resigned.
Political Career-
When the Solicitor General retired in 1997, he recommended to the Attorney General that Miller take his place. After being asked to take the job by the President, Miller accepted. While many people in the DOJ were confused as to how he got the job, it was most likely because he wrote several key legal arguments for crucial Supreme Court cases.
However, while Miller won several Supreme Court cases for the U.S. government. In the 2001 case Shrub v. Blood, he wrote an amicus curiae brief which stated that Shrub, the Republican President, should win the case because it violated the 14th amendment. This led to a large amount of backlash because the media accused him of political bias, since he was a known conservative. He resigned before Shrub took office.
He then stayed out of politics and worked at a private law firm in until 2005, when he was appointed the General Counsel by the NSA Director. Several conspiracy theorists alleged that he worked as a lawyer for the NSA long before being appointed. On his twitter account he joked “I can neither confirm nor deny these accusation,” fueling the theories. He held the position until becoming the Executive Director in 2010. After that, he turned down the position of Deputy Director in 2015. In 2016, after Calvin Reed announced his candidacy for President, Miller met with him three times. No one knows the reason why they met, or why Miller declined several FOIA requests regarding the meetings, but Miller was dubbed Reed’s “friendly neighborhood NSA consultant” by a lesser known reporter. The story never hit mainstream media due to the lack of sources and evidence regarding the matter.
In November, once Reed was elected, Alicia Florrick, a Democrat, was appointed Attorney General even though the party was falling apart. Reed appointed Miller as he Deputy Attorney General because he wanted him to “have a moderating effect on the Department of Justice.” Miller is now leading his own investigation into Secretary of State Jay Gerestaer, and wants him impeached, because of his many scandals he was involved in.
