James M. Miller

Jim has focused his practice primarily in area of public utility law. Jim and his colleagues provide insight into all aspects of a client’s business including contracts, financing, regulatory issues, environmental law, and cooperative governance. In the end, Jim’s goal is to provide a sound legal strategy that meets the client’s needs and contributes to the success of the organization.

His clients include large regional utilities such as Big Rivers Electric Corporation and local companies like Southern Pennyrile Cooperative, LCA and TERRAPure Distillery. Whether large or small, Jim works to make sure that his clients get excellent service and understand all their options. Because of his commitment to his clients, many have relied upon him and Sullivan Mountjoy, PSC for more than 40 years.

Jim likes to work with electric cooperatives and small utilities. Regulated industries are where he has focused his practice because he likes the challenge of helping them successfully navigate the regulatory process.

The perfect client for Jim is one who has a variety of legal needs and wants an attorney who can dig into contractual, compliance and regulatory issues. He wants a company that will rely upon him to guide them in a variety of areas of the law, including working with regulatory agencies.

Bachelor of Arts, University of Kentucky – 1970

Juris Doctorate, University of Kentucky College of Law – 1973

Law Clerk to the Hon. James F. Gordon, United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Kentucky Bar Convention – Chairman – 1982

Kentucky Council on Higher Education; member; chair

Owensboro-Daviess County Industrial Foundation, Inc.- board member and secretary

Distinguished Services to Education Award – 1994

Leadership Owensboro, Class of 1986

Leadership Kentucky, Class of 1988; board member; secretary; chair

Kentucky Library Trustees Association Annual Meeting – Presentation on the Legal Aspects of Trusteeship – 1981

Daviess County Bar Association

Kentucky Bar Association

American Bar Association

Electric Cooperative Bar Association

Commonwealth of Kentucky

U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Supreme Court

National Southwire Aluminum Co. v. Big Rivers Electric Corporation, Ky. App., 785 S.W. 2d 503 (1990)

City of Florence v. Owen Electric Cooperative, Inc., Ky., 832 S.W.2d 876 (1992)