Record, Not Politics Propels Miller to U.S. Corporate Crime Post

Lisa Miller doesn’t easily fit the profile of a political appointee to a top Justice Department post helping lead efforts to crackdown on corporate crime.

Miller had no visible ties to President Joe Biden. She’d never previously crossed paths with her new boss, Criminal Division chief Kenneth Polite.

In fact, Miller’s only apparent personal connection to a senior DOJ leader happened to be in the previous administration. Her sister, up-and-coming Supreme Court litigator Sarah Harris, also served as a deputy assistant attorney general, albeit in the department’s Office of Legal Counsel under former President Donald Trump.

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