THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Santa Fe, New Mexico)
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For Immediate Release September
25, 2000
PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES ARTHUR A. McGIVERIN AND ROBERT A. MILLER AS MEMBERS
OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE
The President today announced his intent to nominate Chief Justice
Arthur A. McGiverin and Chief Justice Robert A. Miller to reappointment to
the Board of Directors of The State Justice Institute.
Chief Justice Arthur A. McGiverin, of Des Moines, Iowa, was elected
Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court on October 1, 1987, having served
on the Iowa Supreme Court since 1978. Prior to his appointment to the
Supreme Court, Justice McGiverin served as a District Court Judge in Iowa
for thirteen years. He worked in the private practice of law from 1956 to
1965. He has been a member of the Supreme Court Commission on Continuing
Legal Education and the Iowa State Bar Association Committee on Uniform
Jury Instructions. Justice McGiverin is a member of the Wapello County Bar
Association and the American Law Institute. He is past president of the
Conference of Chief Justices and past chair of the National Center for
State Courts Board of Directors. Justice McGiverin received his B.S.C.
and his J.D. from the University of Iowa.
Chief Justice Robert A. Miller, of Pierre, South Dakota, has been on
the bench in South Dakota for nearly thirty years. After serving as an
Assistant Attorney General, as a local prosecutor and in private practice,
he was appointed to the Sixth Circuit Court in 1971 and the State Supreme
Court in 1986. Justice Miller served as Presiding Judge on the Sixth
Circuit from 1976-86, and has served as Chief Justice of the State Supreme
Court since 1990. He is the first Chief Justice in South Dakota history to
be reelected to a second and third term by his colleagues. Justice Miller
received his B.S. and his J.D. from the University of South Dakota.
The State Justice Institute was established to award grants to improve
the quality of justice in the State courts, to facilitate better
coordination and information sharing between State and Federal courts, and
to foster innovative, efficient solutions to common problems faced by all
courts. It is a private, non-profit organization.
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