Illinois Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Miller listens to oral arguments in 1999. Benjamin K. Miller was an Illinois Supreme Court justice for 17 years and was chief justice from 1991 until 1993.
Born in Springfield, Miller received a bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University in 1958 and a law degree from Vanderbilt University in 1961. He served in the Army Reserve from 1961 until 1964 and in the Navy Reserve from 1964 until 1967. He then was a partner in a Springfield law firm from 1964 until 1970 and ran his own law firm in Springfield from 1970 until 1976.
Throughout his time on the state’s high court, Miller developed a reputation for moderate to conservative jurisprudence. He evaluated 20,000 cases for review, participated in more than 2,000 cases in which opinions were issued and wrote 487 opinions. Regarding specific cases, Miller authored a majority opinion that denounced forced confessions and police brutality in reversing the high-profile murder conviction of career criminal Andrew Wilson in 1987. He also wrote rulings upholding the state’s guilty-but-mentally-ill law and preserving confidential and privileged communications between sexual assault victims and rape crisis counselors.
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