Pat Miles
| Patrick A. Miles Jr. | |
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| U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan | |
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In office July 9, 2012 – January 20, 2017 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Donald A. Davis |
| Succeeded by | Andrew B. Birge |
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| Born |
October 19, 1967 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater |
Aquinas College Harvard Law School |
| Occupation | Attorney |
Patrick A. Miles Jr. (born October 19, 1967) is a former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was nominated by President Obama on March 29, 2012 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 29, 2012. Miles is the first person of color to hold the position of U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, which covers 49 Michigan counties including the state's entire Upper Peninsula.
He was the Democratic nominee for Michigan's 3rd Congressional District in the 2010 congressional election.
Miles is a third generation resident of southeast Grand Rapids. He is the son of Patrick A. Miles Sr., a retired Steelcase Senior Buyer, former Chairman of the Grand Rapids Urban League Board of Directors and former Chairman of the Grand Rapids Planning Commission, and Shirley Cross Miles, who retired after teaching early elementary students in the Grand Rapids Public Schools for 30 years.
His mother is a descendant of freed slave Thomas W. Cross, was reared on a family farm in Blanchard, Michigan and is related to Dr. Merze Tate, the first African American woman to attend the University of Oxford and to earn a Ph.D. in government and international relations from Radcliffe College. His sister, Angela Miles, is a television anchor/reporter based in Chicago, Illinois. Miles' paternal grandfather worked in Grand Rapids for General Motors as a machinist.
Miles attended Grand Rapids public schools and graduated from Ottawa Hills High School at the age of 16. Miles spent his freshman year of college at Great Lakes Christian College (then Great Lakes Bible College) in Lansing, Michigan, before graduating from Aquinas College in 1988 with a degree in business administration and economics. He worked in an office furniture factory as a spot-welder all four summers during college.
Miles graduated from Harvard Law School at age 23 and was a member of its Class of 1991 along with Barack Obama, Julius Genachowski, and Kenneth Mehlman. While at Harvard, he became editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Record, the first African American to do so.
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