Patrick Miles Jr.

On September 28, 2017, Miles announced he was seeking the Democratic nomination for Michigan Attorney General. On April 15, 2018, Miles was unable to secure the Democratic nomination for this office, losing to Dana Nessel.

On July 9, 2012, Miles began serving as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan.

He was the Democratic nominee for Michigan's 3rd Congressional District in the 2010 congressional election.

Miles announced on March 18, 2010 that he was running for Congress to represent Michigan's Third Congressional District—an area Gerald Ford represented for 24 years and which had not elected a Democrat to Congress since 1974. He won the August 3rd Democratic primary against former Kent County Commissioner Paul Mayhue by a 2-1 margin.

In the November 2, 2010 general election, Miles was defeated by Republican Justin Amash.

On December 1, 2010, Miles returned to practice law at Dickinson Wright in Grand Rapids until he took office as the Grand Rapids-based U.S. Attorney.

Miles served an elected term on the Varnum management/policy committee from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2004. In 2006 he joined the national law firm of Dickinson Wright as a partner based in Grand Rapids.

In 2002, he was elected to serve as President of the Grand Rapids Bar Association from 2004-05. Miles has served on dozens of community boards and committees. He served on the Aquinas College Board of Trustees from 1993-2012 and was its Chairman from 2004–08, guiding the Board through a presidential search process and governance reorganization. He serves on the DeVos Children's Hospital Foundation Board, and is its former vice chair.

The Grand Rapids Business Journal named Miles to its 40 under 40 business leaders list in October 1998, December 2002, and November 2007. Business Direct Weekly named him to its 40 business leaders under 40 in March 2004. In 1999, the Grand Rapids Press named Pat Miles one of 10 corporate leaders to watch in the new millennium.

Miles graduated from Harvard Law School at age 23 and was a member of its Class of 1991 along with Barack Obama, Julius Genachowski, and Kenneth Mehlman. While at Harvard, he became editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Record, the first African American to do so.

After Harvard, Miles returned home to Grand Rapids in 1991 and joined Varnum Riddering Schmidt & Howlett, a 150-attorney law firm, as an associate. He specialized in business law and cable/telecommunications law. Miles made partner in 1997 at the age of 29—the first person of color to become a partner in the firm's 110-year history and the first African American male to become a partner at a Grand Rapids law firm with more than 10 attorneys.

In the late 1990s, he chaired the Inner-City Christian Federation Board of Directors, a faith-based non-profit which builds and creates affordable housing ownership opportunities. He was Secretary and Treasurer of Hope Network, Treasurer of Spectrum Health Hospitals, and was on the Greater Grand Rapids Area YMCA Board of Directors and is its former Treasurer. In July 2011 he was elected to serve as the first president of the newly formed Grand Rapids Black Chamber of Commerce—the first to be locally chartered by the Michigan Black Chamber of Commerce.

Miles attended Grand Rapids public schools and graduated from Ottawa Hills High School at the age of 16. Miles spent his freshman year of college at Great Lakes Christian College (then Great Lakes Bible College) in Lansing, Michigan, before graduating from Aquinas College in 1988 with a degree in business administration and economics. He worked in an office furniture factory as a spot-welder all four summers during college.

Patrick A. Miles Jr. (born October 19, 1967) is a former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was nominated by President Obama on March 29, 2012 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 29, 2012. Miles is the first person of color to hold the position of U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, which covers 49 Michigan counties including the state's entire Upper Peninsula.