About
After working in different capacities as a lawyer in the public sector at both the state and federal levels, Clay has spent the past two decades in private practice. Active in the Indianapolis community and professional organizations, he has served on a number of not-for-profit boards and is currently the immediate Past-President of the Indiana State Bar Association. Clay was also honored to be included again for the 2023 edition of the peer-reviewed "Best Lawyers in America®" guide for his expertise in the field of Communications Law in Indiana.
While leading the Indiana State Bar Association, Clay wrote ten “President’s Perspective” columns for the member magazine, Res Gestae. “Lawyers Undergird Civil Society” (October 2021); “The Rule of Law and the Ethical Lawyer” (November 2021); “The Art and Science of Thinking Like a Lawyer” (December 2021); “Jackie Robinson, Diversity, and Race Hate” (January/February 2022); “True Grit” (March 2022); “Maintaining the Fair and Independent Administration of Justice” (April 2022); “Shattering Norms” (May 2022); “Reason, Passion, and the American Flag” (June 2022); “Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and the Delivery of Legal Services” (July/August 2022); and “Promoting a Culture of Positive Engagement” (September 2022). These columns can be viewed within this searchable PDF.
Clay Miller received his law degree from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana. Following a two-year judicial clerkship for Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard, he served as the Chief Administrative Law Judge at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission for 4 1/2 years. After a brief stint as an Attorney Advisor in the Office of Public Utility Regulation at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., in 2000 Clay entered private practice with the Indianapolis law firm then known as Baker & Daniels. Nine years later, he moved his office across the street to join Bamberger, Foreman, Oswald & Hahn. In 2017, he and his law partners voted to merge with the larger Kentucky-based firm Stoll Keenon Ogden, PLLC. After three years with Stoll Keenon, in September 2020 Clay hung-out his own shingle, opening Clayton Miller Law, P.C. He is admitted to practice law before the courts of the State of Indiana, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Clay grew up in Muncie, Indiana. After graduation from Muncie Northside High School, he attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he received his undergraduate degree in History and was a four-year varsity swimmer. After college, Clay worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., first for the U.S. House Iran-Contra Committee, then for U.S. Representative Thomas Petri of Wisconsin, before returning to Indiana for law school.
Long active in the Indianapolis community he currently serves on the board of the Madam Walker Legacy Center (former Vice President). He also served for several years as the president of the Chatham Arch Neighborhood Foundation and is a past Chair of the Appellate Practice Section of the Indianapolis Bar Association. He received the William G. Baker Civic Education Award from the Indiana Bar Foundation in 2011 and is a leader at his downtown church, Roberts Park United Methodist, where he sings in the choir. He has previously served as president of the Contemporary Art Society at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields.
Additional previous civic engagements have included serving on the boards of the Harvard Club of Indiana (President), the Indiana Landmarks Foundation (Secretary), Dance Kaleidoscope (Secretary), the Chatham Arch Neighborhood Association (President), the I.U. Maurer School of Law Alumni Board, the Indiana Bar Foundation, the Friends of the Indiana State Archives, and the National Association of Schools of Music (Public Member).