Former nun to argue for Clinton disbarment
By JAMES JEFFERSON
The Associated Press
6/30/00 7:57 PM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- The woman selected to argue that
President Clinton isn't fit to be a lawyer is a former nun who
this year had an Arkansas judge removed from office.
The Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct
selected Marie-Bernarde Miller of Little Rock to handle its case
against Clinton. A lawsuit seeking Clinton's disbarment was filed
Friday in state court.
A judge has yet to be assigned to the case. Judge John Ward, whom
Clinton appointed to a chancery court position in 1989, was given
the case Friday but stepped aside immediately. The court closed
before a new judge could be named.
Whoever presides will oversee the gathering of evidence and the
trial. The judge alone will decide whether Clinton should be
allowed to practice law. Either side can appeal the judge's
decision to the state Supreme Court.
With appeals, it is unlikely the case will be resolved before
Clinton leaves office.
Miller is a graduate of the all-girl Mount St. Mary Academy at
Little Rock and was a member of the Roman Catholic Religious
Sisters of Mercy from the early 1970s to 1986. She has since
worked for a civil rights attorney, the Pulaski County
prosecutor's office and been a former state assistant attorney
general.
The professional conduct committee hired her June 7 -- a week
after the state Supreme Court upheld the ouster of Pulaski County
Circuit Judge Morris Thompson, who was accused of practicing law
while a judge, writing bad checks and failing to pay income
taxes.
She has declined interview requests that go beyond her confirming
her appointment.
Thompson's replacement, Little Rock lawyer Leon Johnson, could
hear the case against Clinton. He now has a 1-in-7 shot.
James Badami, director of the judicial discipline panel, said he
hired Miller for the Thompson case because of her reputation as a
hard-driving trial lawyer.
"She's professionally competent and very hard-working," Badami
said. "She had the credentials to do the job -- extensive trial
experience, a very good professional reputation for competency
and ability as an attorney, and a reputation for being tenacious
and always doing the right thing."
Miller, 48, earned a bachelor's degree in American government in
1975 from Maryville College in St. Louis and a law degree from
the University of Kansas in 1984.
Copyright 2000 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Attorney Marie-B. Miller, a partner with Gill, Elrod, Regon,
has been named by the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on
Professional Conduct to handle its case seeking the disbarment
of President Clinton. Miller, in this undated photo, is a
lawyer who successfully presented the case against the first
Arkansas judge removed from office for misconduct.
(AP Photo/Arkansas Business Magazine)
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Marie-Bernarde Miller - Marie-B. Miller is a former Deputy
Prsecuting Attorney for Pulaski and Perry Counties, and former
Deputy Attorney General Director of the Arkansas Medicaid Fraud
Control Unit and Special Assistant United States Attorney for
Health Care Issues.
She is a trial lawyer, and is licensed to practice before the
United States Courts of Appeal for the Fifth and Eighth Circuits,
the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Miller is a member of the
American Health Care Lawyers Association, and is a Hearing
Officer for the Arkansas Department of Human Services' Medicaid
Program. She currently concentrates her law practice in the areas
of employment, health care and manufactured housing law
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