The Honorable Beau A. Miller is the Presiding Judge of the 190th Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas. He is also the current Legislative Chair of the State Judicial District Courts located in Harris County. Judge Miller was unanimously elected by his fellow judges to serve as the Administrative Judge of the Harris County District Courts’ Civil Trial Division in 2022 and 2023.

Judge Miller has served as Co-Chair of the Houston Bar Association’s LGBTQ+ Committee from 2022-2025, for which he received the HBA President’s Award. For his work in support of the LGBTQ+ community, he has received the Houston LGBT+ Political Caucus Barnish Award and the Victory Fund’s Annise Parker Leadership Award.

Judge Miller was responsible for producing the District Court of Harris County’s COVID-19 in-person jury trial information campaign. In Harris County, he presided over the first Zoom bench trial and the first in-person jury trial during the Pandemic. From June through September of 2020, he presided over half of the civil jury trials in the State of Texas.

Judge Miller received his J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law and serves as the Permanent Class President of the Class of 2001. He clerked for the Honorable Ricardo H. Hinojosa on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. In 2024, Judge Miller was awarded an Executive Certificate for completing the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Before his career in law, Judge Miller was Associate Director of Bands at Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, Texas, after graduating from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Music Education degree. At LSU, he served as the Drum Major of the “Golden Band from Tigerland.”