Grant Miller

Background

About Grant Miller

Grant Miller is a public defender and candidate for the Utah State House of Representatives.Grant attended the SJ Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah where he was President of the Student Bar Association. He was awarded with the Pro Bono Initiative’s Certificate of Service for 2016-2017 for his volunteer legal service. He graduated in 2017 and was the student speaker at this graduation. He scored in the 90th percentile on the Uniform Bar Exam and was admitted to the Utah State Bar and the Federal Bar later that year.Grant began practice as a private criminal defense attorney in Park City. He specialized in clearing records by successfully litigating expungements and conviction reductions. After his time in private practice, Mr. Miller became a public defender with SLLDA in the misdemeanor division and moved up to the felony division after a year and a half. He has taken scores of trials to verdict in both the District and Justice Courts during his time at SLLDA and has won jury acquittals on a wide array of cases. Grant is the past president of the Young Lawyers Division of the Utah State Bar and sat ex officio on the Utah State Board of Bar Commissioners. He previously represented Utah at the American Bar Association YLD House of Delegates. He is the former director of the Wills For Heroes program in Utah. He is a volunteer expert at the Salt Lake County’s Expungement Day and is a mainstay volunteer attorney at the Pro Bono Initiative’s expungement clinic. He serves as a board member on the SJ Quinney College of Law Young Alumni Association. He was also a candidate for Salt Lake City Council in 2020.In 2023, Utah Business Magazine recognized him as a "40 Under 40" honoree.