Scottsbluff attorney appointed 12th District judge

LINCOLN – Governor Pete Ricketts announced his appointment of Andrea D. Miller to the District Court of the 12th Judicial District Court of Nebraska on Friday.

Miller, 37, is an attorney at Simmons Olsen Law Firm in Scottsbluff. In her 11 years of practicing law in Nebraska, she has also served as a law clerk in the Criminal Appeals Division of the Nebraska Attorney General's Office. Additionally, Miller has participated in and graduated from Leadership Scotts Bluff and the Nebraska State Bar Association Leadership Academy. She currently sits on the Humanities Nebraska board and was the past Chairperson of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs.

Miller holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a Minor in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Kearney and a Juris Doctor from the University of Nebraska College of Law.

The 12th Judicial District consists of Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, and Sioux counties. The primary place of office for the judicial vacancy is Gering, Scottsbluff County, Nebraska.

The vacancy was due to the retirement of Judge Randall L. Lippstreu.