Tamara Miller
Tamara Miller is the co-founder of DiverseUSA, LLC, an accomplished civil rights trial attorney, a retired Senior Executive in the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Health & Human Services, and a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with over 37 years of legal, policy and leadership experience. What is most notable about Tamara’s career is that she has worked tirelessly to advance civil liberties in multiple sectors - federal, state, local, military, and private.
As a partner since 2010 in MillerMasciola, Attorneys At Law, Tamara has won compensation and saved jobs for scores of federal and private sector employees facing adverse action, harassment, demotion, termination, and security clearance revocation in administrative hearings, mediations, and in federal and state lawsuits. She has won successful outcomes for her clients in U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) hearings, US. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) complaints, and U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) hearings and appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
As Deputy Director for Civil Rights at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Tamara provided national-level leadership and oversight to ten regional offices and headquarters staff to investigate and resolve complaints concerning healthcare, social services, and child welfare programs through enforcement action, technical assistance, and training. She enforced federal laws through settlements and corrective actions in over 20 major cases against State agencies and HHS contract companies receiving federal funds.
Tamara successfully prosecuted and supervised federal criminal and civil rights cases as a Deputy Chief and Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). As the second Director of Civil Rights at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Tamara provided executive direction and oversight of TSA’s workforce initiatives and established its external civil rights program to review complaints at the nation’s airports. As a Special counselor, she also led the Privacy Office, Freedom of Information Act, Ombudsman, Executive Secretariat, GAO/IG Audit Liaison, Sensitive Security Information, and Transportation Security Redress Offices.
In the U.S. military, as a JAG officer, Tamara prosecuted serious crimes. She represented the Department of Air Force as agency counsel. After separating from active duty, Tamara joined the Maryland Air National Guard, where she served as the Staff Judge Advocate and provided expert advice and counsel to commanders and service members on all aspects of military justice and civil affairs affecting Air Force operations in the state.
Tamara has received several Senior Executive Service performance awards, the TSA Gold Award for Leadership, and numerous military awards and decorations. She is a volunteer guardian ad litem for disadvantaged children and was named the 2019 Volunteer Lawyer of the Year by the D.C. Volunteer Lawyers Project.
Tamara earned her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, her B.A. degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame; and is a member of the District of Columbia, Illinois, and Maryland Bars. An American citizen, Tamara was born to a Korean woman and an African-American soldier. She is married, and has two children and one grandchild.
