An internationally renowned expert in disability and employment discrimination law, Professor Miller joined the faculty in 2004, after spending twelve years in public service in Washington, DC. He was one of the longest serving commissioners of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency which enforces employment discrimination laws. While at the EEOC, Professor Miller spearheaded the development of the agency's successful mediation program. He has also served as the White House liaison to the disability community and as Deputy Director of the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs. Prior to joining the U.S. government, Professor Miller was the director of litigation for the Western Law Center for Disability Rights (now the Disability Law Center) and taught at the law schools of Loyola University and UCLA. He began his career as a litigation associate at a Los Angeles law firm.

Since 2006, Professor Miller has been the director of the University of Washington's Disability Studies Program, an interdisciplinary program that examines the social, cultural, historical and personal experience of disability. He is also a member of the UW Graduate School faculty, a Faculty Associate of the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and a faculty advisor to the UW School of Law Health Law Concentration Track.

Professor Miller currently serves as a member of the board of Mental Disability Rights International, an international human rights NGO; a member of the National Advisory Board of the Center for Genetic Research, Ethics, and Law at Case Western Reserve University; the Medical Ethics Committee of Seattle Children's Hospital; a member of the Grants and Community Leadership Committee of The Seattle Foundation; and an International Associate of the Employers' Forum on Disability based in London, England. He also serves as an appointed member of the HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics Health and Society.

Professor Miller is an active member of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Labor and Employment Section, and he is a Fellow of the ABA Foundation. He was also elected to be a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Professor Miller is a Fellow of the British American Project. In 2003, Professor Miller received an honorary Doctor of Laws from CUNY Law School. He is a former trustee of the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Miller is a frequent speaker and lecturer in the area of equal employment opportunity, workplace diversity, disability issues, and the legal, social and ethical issues of the Human Genome Project, and he is a prolific writer on these topics. Professor Miller's expert insights on the topics of the workplace, disability, genetics and the law often appear in the national media, in print, television and radio. He has received grant funding for his research and work in the areas of disability human rights, genomics and health equality, and bioethics. He has been the convener and chair of several national and international symposia, including Framing Legal and Human Rights Strategies for Change: A Case Study of Disability Rights in Asia (2008); and The Ethics and Policy of Limiting Growth in Children with Severe Disabilities: Issues of Decision Making, Benefits and Social Impact (2007).

In 2006, Professor Miller reprised his lead role as Don Baklava, in the revival production of the musical comedy Ring Job by The Mask and Wig Club.