About Tony Miller

Tony R. Miller is a Co-Founder of Troppito + Miller, LLC, and is Currently a Named Member of Troppito Miller Griffin, LLC, Focusing His Missouri and Kansas Law Practice on:

• Driving While Intoxicated (DWI)
• Criminal Law
• Traffic Defense
• Injury Claims, including Workers’ Compensation matters

Legal Honors Received:

• Tony has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” in Kansas and Missouri. To be recognized as a “Super Lawyer”, Tony was voted by his lawyer peers and then selected by Super Lawyers as one of the top 5% of all lawyers in Kansas and Missouri.
• Tony has been recognized by the “Kansas City Business Journal” in the “Best of the Bar” list.

Tony is an Ex-Prosecutor:

• In 2001, Tony served as an Assistant Prosecutor before the City of Kansas City, Missouri Municipal Court immediately after law school.
• In 2003 and 2004, Tony served as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in the Prosecutor’s Office of Jackson County, Missouri.
• In 2013, Tony was appointed by the Presiding Judge to serve as a Special Prosecuting Attorney in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri (Jackson County, Missouri).

Additional Professional Experience: 

• Tony was selected to be the law clerk to The Honorable Marco A. Roldan of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri (Jackson County, Missouri).
• Tony practiced law with the Kansas City firm of Yonke & Pottenger, LLC where he focused in the legal areas of plaintiff’s personal injury, criminal defense, and claimant’s worker’s compensation.

Educational Background:

• He graduated from the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law in 2001 with a Juris Doctorate.
• He graduated from Baker University in 1998 with a degree in Political Science.
• Educational Honors: He was on the Dean’s List, which means he maintained a 3.5 grade point average or higher in law school for each semester that he was recognized.

Law Licenses:

• Licensed to practice law in Missouri in 2001.
• Licensed to practice law in Kansas in 2002.

Awards/Volunteer

• Best of the Bar
• Super Lawyers
• Military Matters Volunteer

Memberships

• Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (MACDL)
• Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (MATA)
• Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (KCMBA)
• Eastern Jackson County Bar Association
• UMKC Law Alumni Association (Past President / Member)
• Missouri Bar – YLS Council (former elected member)

Political Career and Professional Positions:

• Tony was elected to the Jackson County, Missouri Legislature (3rd District – At Large) and served two terms from 2015 through 2022. He was chair of the Land Use Committee where he had legislative oversight of zoning and Parks + Rec.
• Tony served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Little Blue Valley Sewer District from 2015 through 2022.
• He served from 2009 to 2013 as the representative from the legal profession on the Jackson County Drug Commission; spending the last two years as the Chairperson.
• In 2011, he was named to the Jackson County Prosecutor Advisory Committee to assist the County Executive in the selection of the Prosecuting Attorney due to a vacancy in the office.  Similarly, he was named to the Jackson County Sheriff Advisory Committee in 2016 to assist the County Executive in the selection of the Sheriff due to a vacancy in the office.
• Tony served on the Law Alumni Board of the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law as President for the 2017-2018 term.
• He is a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, and served as an elected representative of District 3 to the YLS Council of the Missouri Bar.
• In 2013, Tony served as a Co-Chair for the Calvary Community Outreach Network’s Holiday Harvest fundraising drive.
• In 2014, Tony Co-Chaired the Carnival Fundraiser for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates).
• In 2018, he fundraised for the Christo Rey High School through his participation in Dancing with the KC Stars. For a good laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdlzfK4n-I0.
• In 2022, Tony successfully campaigned for the passage of the renewal of the Children’s Services Fund of Jackson County (CSF) and was subsequently awarded the Champions of Children Award by the CSF.
• In 2022, Tony assisted with the efforts of the cycling community and Jackson County government to put on the inaugural “Bright Lights for Charlie” charity bicycle ride to help the family of a cyclist who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run motorist.

Personal: 

• Tony is married to Bethany Miller, a local attorney, and they live in Jackson County with their daughters.

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