Georgia's 50 Most Influential Women For 2007 

M. Yvette Miller

Judge, Georgia Court of Appeals

Yvette was the first African American woman and the 65th Judge to serve on the Georgia Court of Appeals.  She was appointed by Governor Roy Barnes on July 12, 1999.  She has been reelected twice since then, most recently in November of 2006.  Judge Miller has achieved many firsts in her distinguished career, including one of the the first female prosecutors in Fulton County, first African American woman to develope a private legal practice in Jesup, Georgia, and in 1992, Governor Zell Miller appointed her as the first woman, first African American, and the youngest person ever to serve as Director and Judge of the Appellate Division of the State Board of Workers' Compensation.

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