Clayton C. Miller inducted as president of the Indiana State Bar Association

Indianapolis (Oct. 15, 2020) – Clayton C. Miller of Clayton Miller Law, P.C. was inducted as president of the Indiana State Bar Association today during the association’s Annual Meeting.

Miller received his law degree from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana. Following a two-year judicial clerkship for Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard, he served as the Chief Administrative Law Judge at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission for four years. After a brief stint as an Attorney Advisor in the Office of Public Utility Regulation at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., in 2000 Miller entered private practice with the Indianapolis law firm then known as Baker & Daniels. Nine years later, he moved his office across the street to join Bamberger, Foreman, Oswald & Hahn. In 2017, he and his law partners voted to merge with the larger Kentucky-based firm Stoll Keenon Ogden, PLLC. After three years with Stoll Keenon, in September 2020 Clay hung-out his own shingle, opening Clayton Miller Law, P.C. He is admitted to practice law before the courts of the State of Indiana, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Miller grew up in Muncie, Ind. After graduation from Muncie Northside High School, he attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he received his undergraduate degree in History and was a four-year varsity swimmer, specializing in the breaststroke. After college, he worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., first for the U.S. House Iran-Contra Committee, then for U.S. Representative Thomas Petri of Wisconsin, before returning to Indiana for law school.

Long active in the Indianapolis community, Miller currently serves on the board of the Madam Walker Legacy Center (former Vice President); the Chatham Arch Neighborhood Foundation (President); and the Appellate Practice Section (past-Chair) of the Indianapolis Bar Association. He received the William G. Baker Civic Education Award from the Indiana Bar Foundation in 2011 and is a leader at his downtown church, Roberts Park United Methodist, where he sings in the choir. He also recently concluded a multi-year stint as president of the Contemporary Art Society at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields.

Additional previous civic engagements have included serving on the boards of the Harvard Club of Indiana (President), the Indiana Landmarks Foundation (Secretary), Dance Kaleidoscope (Secretary), the Chatham Arch Neighborhood Association (President), the I.U. Maurer School of Law Alumni Board, the Indiana Bar Foundation, the Friends of the Indiana State Archives, and the National Association of Schools of Music (Public Member). 

Miller succeeds Michael E. Tolbert of Tolbert & Tolbert, Gary, Ind. Amy Noe Dudas of Dudas Law in Richmond, Ind. assumes the role as ISBA president-elect, and Hon. Tom Felts, Fort Wayne, Ind. was elected vice president during today’s member assembly.

ISBA’s new leadership team, as inducted by members during the ISBA Annual Meeting is:

OFFICERS
President: Clayton C. Miller, Indianapolis
President Elect: Amy Noe Dudas, Richmond
Vice President: Hon. Tom Felts, Fort Wayne
Secretary: Mary Louise Dague Buck
Treasurer: Yvette LaPlante
Counsel to the President: Terry Tolliver

BOARD OF GOVERNORS
1st District: Candace Williams, Gary
2nd District: Zachary Lightner, Auburn
3rd District:  Hon. Cristal Brisco, South Bend
4th District: Lindsay Lepley, Fort Wayne
5th District: Cliff Robinson, Rensselaer
6th District: Scott Smith, Noblesville
7th District: Emily Storm-Smith, Indianapolis
8th District: Katie Boren, Evansville
9th District: Greg Fifer, Jeffersonville
10th District: Melissa Cunnyngham, Frankfort
11th District: 

• Colin Flora, Indianapolis
  
• Ann Sutton, Indianapolis
  
• Jon Laramore, Indianapolis
  

At Large District:

• Renee Ortega, Hammond
  
• Freedom Smith, Indianapolis
  

Past President: Michael Tolbert, Gary
House of Delegates Chair: Holly Harvey, Monroe County
House of Delegates Chair Elect: Angka Hinshaw, Indianapolis
Young Lawyers Section Chair: Alyssa Cochran, New Albany
Young Lawyers Section Observer: Brandon Tate, Indianapolis