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Panelist
Judge Beau Miller
Presiding Judge, 190th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas
The Honorable Beau A. Miller is the Presiding Judge of the 190th District Court, Harris County, Texas. Before election to the bench in 2018, Judge Miller was in private practice, representing a wide range of clients, both plaintiffs and defendants, in commercial, products liability, and Section 1983 litigation. From 2001 through 2003, Judge Miller was a law clerk to The Honorable Ricardo H. Hinojosa, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, McAllen Division.
Judge Miller received his J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law and serves as the Permanent Class President of the Class of 2001. In 2025, Judge Miller was awarded the Harvard Mediation Intensive from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and in July 2024 Judge Miller was awarded a certificate of completion for the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Executive Education.
Prior to his legal career, Judge Miller was the Associate Director of Bands at Stephen F. Austin High School, Austin, Texas. He graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Music Education degree. He also served as the Drum Major of the “Golden Band from Tigerland.”
During the Pandemic, Judge Miller was responsible for producing the District Court of Harris County’s COVID-19 in-person jury trial information campaign which consists of a website, www.HarrisCountyJuryService.com, pamphlet, and video highlighting the safety procedures and protocols in place for in-person jury trials in Harris County. In addition, he was the first judge in Harris County to preside over a Zoom bench trial, and the first judge in Harris County to preside over the first in-person jury trial (August 2020).
While on the bench, Judge Miller has served in numerous leadership roles. He has served as the Administrative Judge of the Harris County District Courts’ Civil Trial, chaired the Harris County District Courts’ Civil Trial Division’s Ethics and Continuing Legal Education Committee, and has been the Civil District Court Liaison to the Harris County District Clerk’s office. He has also served as Co-Chair of the Houston Bar Association’s 2022-2023 and 2024-2025 Civil/Appellate Bench Bar Conference Committee, Co-Chair of the Houston Bar Association’s 2022-2023 and 2021-2022 LGBTQ+ Committee, for which he received the Houston Bar Association’s President’s Award, and member of the Houston Bar Association’s Judicial Polls Committee in 2023.
Judge Miller was selected as the 2024 Trial Judge of the Year by the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists (TACTAS) and the 2025 Co-Jurist of Year by the Mexican-American Bar Association of Texas. He is also a recipient of the Victory Fund’s Annise Parker Leadership Award in 2023 and the Houston LGBT+ Political Caucus Barnish Award in 2021.
In addition to his own docket, Judge Miller is the Pretrial Judge of the Multidistrict Litigation In re March 7, 2025 Ammonia Release Litigation. He was the Pretrial Judge of In re July 27 Chemical Release Litigation and In re Channelview Flooding Litigation.
He currently serves as the Legislative Chair of the 67 State District Courts located in Harris County.