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4 unusual facts about Harriet Miers


Barry McCarty

McCarty received media attention in 2005 as Preaching Minister of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas, Texas, since it was the church that White House Counsel Harriet Miers attended.

Harriet Miers

Miers was the first Supreme Court nominee to withdraw since Douglas H. Ginsburg in 1987 and the seventh to do so in U.S. history.

As a commercial litigator, she represented clients including Microsoft and the Walt Disney Company.

Pioneer Bible Translators

Former United States Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers previously served on the Pioneer Bible Translators board.


Dedman School of Law

Alumna Harriet Miers served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff and (later) White House Counsel for then-President George W. Bush.

Maura D. Corrigan

Corrigan had been mentioned as a potential nominee to the Supreme Court following the announced retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor and the withdrawal of Harriet Miers, and before President Bush's nomination of Samuel Alito.


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