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Patricia A. Millett co-heads Akin Gump’s Supreme Court practice and has argued 28 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
From August 1996 to September 2007, Ms. Millett served as an assistant to the solicitor general in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C. During that time, she argued 25 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and she briefed more than 50 cases.
Prior to her employment with the Office of the Solicitor General, Ms. Millett worked for four years in the Department of Justice’s Civil Division, Appellate Staff, where she briefed and argued more than 20 cases before the federal courts of appeals and, occasionally, state appellate courts. Before that, she clerked for two years for the late Judge Thomas Tang, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. She also worked for two years in the litigation department of a Washington, D.C. law firm.
Ms. Millett received her B.A. summa cum laude with highest distinction in political science in 1985 from the University of Illinois and her J.D. magna cum laude in 1988 from Harvard Law School. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
Ms. Millett was awarded the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award for representing the interests of the United States before the Supreme Court in 2004. She was recently named by the National Law Journal as one of Washington’s 2010 Most Influential Women Lawyers. She has been recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of appellate law in 2010 and 2009 and listed by Washingtonian magazine as a 2009 Top Lawyer in the area of Supreme Court.
Ms. Millett regularly speaks on Supreme Court practice and appellate advocacy issues in forums nationwide. Her written works include “‘We’re Your Government and We’re Here To Help’: Obtaining Amicus Support From the Federal Government in Supreme Court Cases” (The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 2009).
Ms. Millett’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court include the following—
- Samantar v. Yousuf, et al., No. 08-1555
- United States v. Stevens, No. 08-769
- United States v. Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co., No. 07-308
- Blessing v. Freestone, No. 95-144
- Kalina v. Fletcher, No. 96-0792
- Ricci v. Village of Arlington Heights, No. 97-0501
- Bank of America v. 203 North LaSalle Street Partners, No. 97-1418
- INS v. Aguirre-Aguirre, No. 97-1754
- Norfolk Southern Ry. v. Shanklin, No. 99-0312
- Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Prods., No. 99-536
- City of Indianapolis v. Edmond, No. 99-1030
- Shaw v. Murphy, No. 99-1613
- Young v. United States, No. 00-1567
- Devlin v. Scardaletti, No. 01-417
- Gonzaga Univ. v. Doe, No. 01-679
- Washington Dep’t of Human Servs. v. Keffeler, No. 01-1420
- Nguyen & Phan v. United States, No. 01-10873
- Illinois v. Lidster, No. 02-1060
- Office of Indep. Counsel/ Nat’l Archives & Records Admin. v. Favish, No. 02-954
- KP Permanent Make-Up v. Lasting Impressions, No. 03-409
- Small v. United States, No. 03-750
- Gonzalez v. Crosby, No. 04-6432
- Dolan v. U.S. Postal Service, No. 04-848
- Arkansas Department of Human Servs. v. Ahlborn, No. 04-1506
- Washington v. Recuenco, No. 05-83
- Safeco Ins. Co. v. Burr, and Geico Ins. Co. v. Edo, Nos. 06-84, 06-100
- Fry v. Pliler, No. 06-5427
- Sole v. Wyner, No. 06-531.
Written Works
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Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Massachusetts
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S.C.A., DC Circuit
- U.S.C.A., Federal Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 2nd Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 3rd Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 4th Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 5th Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 6th Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 7th Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 8th Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 9th Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 10th Circuit
Clerkships
Education
- J.D., Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, 1988
- B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, summa cum laude, 1985
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