Lee E. Miller

Partner

Focus

Water Rights and Water Quality
Natural Resources and Public Lands
Environmental
Administrative, Governmental and Legislative
Agriculture
Municipal and Special Districts

Education

University of Wyoming, J.D., 1988
University of Wyoming, B.A. Political Science 1985

Biography

Lee E. Miller devotes his practice to water law, natural resources, and environmental law. He represents western natural resource users, particularly agricultural and municipal water providers, before state and federal agencies, Congress and state legislatures, and in state and federal courts. Mr. Miller's practice ranges from participating in negotiations on an interstate water compact to handling simple administrative appeals. He has been involved in more than a hundred Colorado water cases, including several Supreme Court appeals.

Mr. Miller is admitted to practice in the States of Colorado and Wyoming. He was named a “Colorado Superlawyer” for Environmental and Land Use Law in 2006 and 2009. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Miller has served as the chief of the water rights unit in the Colorado Attorney General's Office. In this position, Mr. Miller supervised water rights litigation for Colorado and represented the state on various water policy boards. Mr. Miller also served as staff counsel to U.S. Senator Hank Brown of Colorado. He was counsel to the bipartisan Congressional Western Water Caucus and was a water and power attorney in the U.S. Department of Interior.

Mr. Miller is a frequent speaker at water and environmental law seminars, as well as before natural resource users groups, and he has authored several papers on these topics. In 1989 and 1993, he participated in developing a compendium on open meetings and open records acts for all fifty states.

Mr. Miller was born in Alliance, Nebraska, and is married to U.S. Merit Service Protection Board Administrative Judge Patricia Miller. The Millers and their son are active in Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church and School in Lakewood. The Millers served as General Chairs for the parish’s $2 million capital campaign in 2004-2006 and as Assistant Chairs for the 2007 “Sundancer” fundraising gala. Currently they are serving as Publicity Chairs for the parish’s Habitat for Humanity building project. Mr. Miller is a founding member of the St. Thomas More Society of Colorado and served as its first president from 2006-2008.

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