Wilbur Kingsbury Miller

Senior Associate Justice, Court of Appeals for District of Columbia, 1945-d. 1976.

Wilbur Kingsbury Miller served as an associate justice for the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (later re-organized into the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Miller was born on October 9, 1892 in Owensboro, Kentucky. He attended the University of Michigan and then studied law independently. Miller began a private practice in Owensboro that lasted from 1916 to 1945. During those years, he also served in the US Army in 1919, as Daviess County attorney from 1921 to 1929, on the Public Service Commission of Kentucky from 1934 to 1935, and as a judge for the Special Court of Appeals for Kentucky from 1940 to 1941. On September 12, 1945 President Harry S. Truman nominated Miller to become associate justice for the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to a seat vacated by Justice Fred M. Vinson. Miller served on the Court from 1945 until his death on January 24, 1976.