Julian D. Miller

Hometown – Winstonville, MS
Undergrad – Harvard College, AB, Government
Graduate School – University of Mississippi School of Law, 2013, JD
Current – Senior Supervising Attorney for Children’s Rights, Southern Poverty Law Center; Adjunct Professor, Mississippi College School of Law; Co-Founding Director / Assistant Professor, Reuben V. Anderson Institute for Social Justice at Tougaloo College.

Julian D. Miller is currently an associate attorney at Forman Watkins & Krutz LLP in Jackson, Mississippi, where he focuses his practice on a variety of civil litigation matters, including commercial litigation, general and products liability matters, governmental litigation and appeals in state and federal court. However, his main focus is developing anti-poverty projects in economic development, public health, and education in the Mississippi Delta that will have a transformational impact on public policy in Mississippi.

He was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta region in Winstonville, MS. He was educated in the MS Delta public school system, graduating from the MS School for Mathematics & Science. He matriculated at Harvard University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in government in 2007.  After college, he returned home to the MS Delta to do anti-poverty and community development work there.  As the program coordinator for the MS Delta Initiative of the Dreyfus Health Foundation, he organized an anti-poverty initiative called New Delta Rising, bringing together a group of 200 community organizers across 11 core MS Delta counties to develop county-based, grassroots, economic development projects that emphasize other areas of social good (public health, education, etc.).  He is a co-founder and board vice-chairman of the Delta Fresh Foods Initiative, where he is working to developing community food systems throughout the MS Delta as both as a means of economic development as a means of preventative health.  He successfully procured a $600,000 in grants to fund two Good Food Revolution projects in Bolivar County and Quitman County in the Mississippi Delta to develop local community food systems in those counties led by youth. He joined the MS Food Policy Council to lay the foundation for the development of a sustainable, equitable statewide food system based on worker-owned cooperative farms.

He is currently working to establish the Reuben V. Anderson Center for Justice to implement programs in poverty reduction, educational advancement, public health equity, community and economic development, and children’s legal rights in Mississippi. He chronicled some of his anti-poverty work in the Mississippi Delta in a chapter in a book entitled, Problem Solving for Better Health: A Global Perspective. He also has other publications to his credit related to public policy and economic justice.

He graduated from the University of MS School of Law in December 2012 with honors. He is served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Presiding Judge T. Kenneth Griffis, Jr. of the Mississippi Court of Appeals. He was formerly an associate attorney at Butler Snow LLP in Ridgeland, MS & Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP in Jackson, MS. He is licensed to practice in all state and federal courts in Mississippi. He is currently pre-law director and professor at Tougaloo College, and the founding director and adjunct professor of the Education Law & Policy Clinic at Mississippi College School of Law.