Leslie Anne Miller '73

2005-2010, Chair 2005-2009

Leslie Anne Miller, Esquire, is a consummate professional in the field of law who has been recognized locally and across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for her leadership in service to the community. Known as an advocate of programs that advance women, she is also a proponent for work that fosters diversity in both the legal profession and business community.

She is currently a solo practitioner engaged in alternate dispute resolution. She also serves as an advisor to the Honorable Michael Nutter and co-chair of his Finance Committee, having performed that same role during his mayoral campaign and then continuing as a member of his transition team.

Ms. Miller was previously General Counsel for the Pennsylvania Office of General Counsel, the state’s largest legal entity. In this position, she led a staff of more than 450 attorneys in representing Governor Edward G. Rendell and 32 executive and independent agencies in litigation, transactions, regulatory, legislative and criminal justice matters.   Prior to her appointment to the Governor’s Cabinet, Ms. Miller was partner and shareholder in the law firm of McKissock and Hoffman, P.C.

Miller is active in various non-profit and cultural organizations, all of which benefit from her professional creativity and innovation.  Some of these include:  Mount Holyoke College (where she is current Board of Trustees Chair), Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Fairmount Park Conservancy, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the Philadelphia Foundation, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council. 

Miller’s thirty year career has been distinguished by myriad honors.  Recently she was honored with the

“Juliette Gordon Low Leadership Award” by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania. By order of the Governor(Rendell), the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veteran’s Affairs presented her with “The Pennsylvania Meritorious Service Medal”.   Former Governor Tom Ridge named her a “Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania”.  Miller received a “Founder’s Award” from Temple University and has been inducted into the “Business Women’s Hall of Fame” at the Fox School of Business.  Friends of the Chamonix Mansion of Fairmount Park honored her and Drexel University College of Medicine presented her with the “Woman One” Award.  She was one of five “Women Making History” for the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and a “Woman of Distinction” according to the Philadelphia Business Journal.  Mount Holyoke College presented her with the “Alumnae Medal of Honor”. Both the Philadelphia Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association have honored her, (she is a past recipient of the “Sandra Day O’Connor Award”), as have Dickinson School of Law and the Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Miller received an A.B., cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College and Master’s Degree in Arts in Political Science from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.  Dickinson School of Law conferred her J.D. and she received an L.L.M., with honors from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law.  She also received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Thomas Jefferson University and an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Wilson College.

Leslie Anne Miller is married to investment advisor Richard B. Worley.  They reside in Bryn Mawr, PA.