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Jacqui Brown Miller
Former Oil Spill Advisory Council

Jacqueline Brown Miller currently serves as executive assistant to the King County Executive where she is assigned to oversee preparation for the transition of power form one executive to the next this November and is assigned to preparations for sheltering evacuees for the anticipated Green River / Howard Hanson dam flooding this winter.

From 2005 through June, 2009, Jacqui served as the Executive Director of the Washington Oil Spill Advisory Council.

Prior to serving the Council, Jacqui was Assistant Attorney General with the Washington Office of the Attorney General. From November 2004 until November 2005, Jacqui served in the Agriculture and Health Division representing the Department of Health's drinking water program, primarily, and did some pest and pesticide work for the Washington Department of Agriculture. From October 1999, to November 2004, Jacqui served in the Natural Resources Division. She represented the Department of Natural Resources' forest practices regulatory program in administrative appeals. She has also represented DNR's proprietary side on a variety of natural resource issues, including those relating to the Endangered Species Act and the ongoing U.S. v. Washington culverts case.

Before joining the Attorney General's Office in 1999, Ms. Brown Miller was an Assistant Attorney General in the Transportation Division of the Ohio Attorney General's Office where she represented the Ohio Department of Transportation before state and federal courts and agencies on a variety of matters including those arising under the CERCLA, NEPA, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the eminent domain laws.

She is a 1993 graduate of the University of Akron School of Law and a 1996 graduate of The George Washington University School of Law's Environmental LLM program. Ms. Brown Miller's masters thesis on the Endangered Species Act is published in the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Vol. 12, 1997.

Speaker: 09 CP Session 1A: Citizen Advisory Council Accomplishments