Brian D. Miller is an American attorney who serves as the

Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery The Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (SIGPR) is an Inspector General position created by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 to oversee spending of government funds in response to the COVID-19 p ...

(SIGPR). In this role, Miller oversees the

United States Department of the Treasury The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the Treasury, national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States. It is one of 15 current United States federal executive departments, U.S. government departments. ...

's implementation of the Coronavirus Economic Stablization Act of 2020, part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

Early life and education

A native of

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...

, Miller received his Bachelor of Arts degree from

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist ministe ...

Juris Doctor A Juris Doctor, Doctor of Jurisprudence, or Doctor of Law (JD) is a graduate-entry professional degree that primarily prepares individuals to practice law. In the United States and the Philippines, it is the only qualifying law degree. Other j ...

from the

University of Texas School of Law The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is the Law school in the United States, law school of the University of Texas at Austin, a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas. According to Texas Law’s American Bar ...

, and Master of Arts from

Westminster Theological Seminary Westminster Theological Seminary (WTS) is a Protestantism, Protestant Christian theology, theological seminary in the Reformed theology, Reformed theological tradition in Glenside, Pennsylvania. It was founded by members of the faculty of Prince ...

Career

Miller was formally nominated as SIGPR by the Trump administration on 6 April 2020, a move that the Trump administration had signaled several days earlier, which had prompted Montana Senator Jon Tester and Utah Senator Mitt Romney to draft a letter to the president requesting a different, independent Special Inspector General. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee held his confirmation hearing on May 5 and voted on May 12 to advance his nomination to the full Senate. The Senate confirmed him on June 2.{{Cite news, last=Rappeport, first=Alan, date=2020-06-02, title=Senate Confirms Inspector General to Oversee Virus Bailout Funds, language=en-US, work=

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References

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