Leslie Anne Miller

Leslie Anne Miller is an attorney who has been a leader in her profession and community for over forty years. During her twenty-five years as a civil litigator, she compiled a list of “firsts”: the first woman partner in her law firm, the first woman elected as President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the first woman to serve as General Counsel of the Commonwealth under Governor Edward Rendell. She was also an advisor to Mayor Michael Nutter.

Her broad and deep record of civic engagement is notable for the number of leadership positions she has held. She was Chair of the Board of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Mount Holyoke (her alma mater) Board of Trustees and the Philadelphia Flower Show. In addition, she is an active member of the Boards of numerous academic and not for profit institutions, including the Barnes Foundation, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and Temple University.

She also served as Interim President of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts when it opened in 2001. In 2024, Miller and her husband Richard Worley, made a major gift to re-name the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall as Marion Anderson Hall in honor of the legendary contralto and civil rights icon.

Equally important has been her work as a mentor and role model for countless women in both the legal profession and broader community. She was the first Chair of The Pennsylvania Bar Associations Commission on Women and the Profession, a long-time member of the Pennsylvania Commission on Women, along with the Pennsylvania’s Women Forum and the Forum of Executive Women. In that same spirit, she has worked tirelessly to help elect women (and a few good men) to local, state and federal offices.

She has received numerous awards throughout her career. These include: an Honorary Degree from Mount Holyoke College, selection as a Distinguished Citizen of the Commonwealth and a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania; The Philadelphia Bar Association’s Sandra Day O’Connor Award; The Committee of 70’s Woman in Public Leadership Award, and The Globy Award for Lifetime Achievement. 

A cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College (1973), Miller received an MA from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University (1974), a JD from the Dickinson School of Law (1977) and an LLM with honors from the Temple University School of Law (1994).

She resides in Bryn Mawr with her husband Richard B. Worley.