Judge Designate Milliken was born in Greenwich, Connecticut on January 4, 1951.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Literature in 1973 from Harvard University.

He has resided in Washington, D.C. since 1975 when he began his legal studies at the

Antioch School of Law. While an undergraduate at Harvard, Mr. Milliken worked with youths

in street programs, and before entering law school he served as a child care worker in a

juvenile facility in the State of New York.

Upon obtaining his juris doctor degree from Antioch in 1978, Mr. Milliken was

selected under the Attorney General’s Hiring Program for Honor Law Graduates and

served as a Trial Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of

Justices until 1980. Receiving a two year E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship from the

Georgetown University Law Center, Mr. Milliken served as a defense practitioner and

clinical supervisor in Georgetown’s Criminal Justice Clinic. The Fellowship culminated in the

award of an LL.M in trial advocacy.

From 1982 until the present Mr. Milliken has engaged in private practice with the firm

of Milliken, Van Susteren and Canan. His practice focused on litigation, primarily in the

criminal and civil rights arenas. At the same time, Mr. Milliken has actively pursued a career in

teaching the law of evidence and trial practice, principally as an Adjunct Professor at the

Georgetown University Law Center and also in the past year at Georgetown University

Law Center and also in the pat year at George Washington and Catholic University Law

Schools through service as an Adjunct Professor and clinical supervisor with the D.C. Law

Students in Court Program.

Throughout his legal career, Judge Designate Milliken has worked to improve the

administration of justice and trial practice. From 1984 to 1990, Mr. Milliken served as a

Project Director of the Citizens Assistance Project, a non-profit organization delivering legal

services to indigent citizens through law firm associates who at the same time received

litigation training under experienced trial lawyers. From 1983 to 1985, Mr. Milliken served on

the Legal Services Corporation’s Board of Governors of the Antioch School of Law. From

1984-1986, Mr. Milliken served on the Steering Committee of the Criminal Law and

Individual Rights Division of the D.C. Bar. From 1985 to 1987, Mr. Milliken served on the

D.C. Bar Practice Manual Coordinating Committee and co-authored the Manual’s chapter

on Criminal Law and Practice in addition to coordinating production of chapters on Juvenile

Law and Practice, Mental Health, Child Abuse and Neglect, and Human Rights. At the Bar’s

1989 Annual Convention, Mr. Milliken lectured on the voir dire practices, and her served as

a Voting Delegate to the Judicial Conference in 1990.

Mr. Milliken has testified before the D.C. City Council in regard to sentencing

legislation, and has lectured for area schools, including Coolidge High School and American

University, as well as for area firms on various topics in criminal law, procedure, evidence,

and trial practice. Mr. Milliken has for several years lectured in criminal law and practice for the

Criminal Practice Institute and in January and September of this year instructed at Harvard

Law Schools’s Trial Advocacy Workshop.

Mr. Milliken married Rebecca Paul Coates in 1972, and they have a son, Jesse-age

ten, and a daughter, Logan-age seven.