Roger Miner

Roger Jeffrey Miner (April 14, 1934 – February 18, 2012) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. Education and career Miner was born on April 14, 1934, in Hudson, New York. He received a Bachelor of Laws from New York Law School in 1956. He received a Bachelor of Science from State University of New York in 1977. He served as a Captain in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1956 to 1959. He was in private practice of law in Hudson from 1959 to 1975. He was corporation counsel for the City of Hudson, New York from 1961 to 1964. He was an assistant district attorney of Columbia County, New York in 1964. He was the district attorney of Columbia County from 1968 to 1975. He was an adjunct associate professor, Columbia-Greene Community College from 1974 to 1979. He was a justice of the New York State Supreme Court from 1976 to 1981. He was an adjunct professor, New York Law School from 1986 to 1996. He was an adjunct professor of Albany Law School of Union University from 1997 until his death. Federal judicial service Miner was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on July 28, 1981, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York vacated by Judge James Thomas Foley. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 25, 1981, and received commission on September 28, 1981. His service was terminated on August 2, 1985, due to elevation to the court of appeals.