What is Harriet Miers?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Harriet Miers |image = HarrietMiersFlagpin.jpg |office = [[White House Counsel]] |president = [[George W. Bush]] |term_start = February 3, 2005 |term_end = January 31, 2007 |predecessor = [[Alberto Gonzales]] |successor = [[Fred F. Fielding|Fred Fielding]] |office1 = [[White House Deputy Chief of Staff]] for Policy |president1 = [[George W. Bush]] |term_start1 = June 6, 2003 |term_end1 = February 3, 2005 |predecessor1 = [[Joshua Bolten]] |successor1 = [[Karl Rove]] |office2 = [[White House Office of the Staff Secretary|White House Staff Secretary]] |president2 = [[George W. Bush]] |term_start2 = January 20, 2001 |term_end2 = June 6, 2003 |predecessor2 = Lisel Loy |successor2 = [[Brett Kavanaugh]] |birth_name = Harriet Ellan Miers |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|8|10}} |birth_place = [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] (before 1988)<br>[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] (1988–present) |education = [[Southern Methodist University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]]) }} '''Harriet Ellan Miers''' (born August 10, 1945) is an American lawyer. She was the [[White House Counsel]] to President [[George W. Bush]] from 2005 to 2007. She is a member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]. Miers was [[White House Office of the Staff Secretary|White House Staff Secretary]] from 2001 to 2003 and [[White House Deputy Chief of Staff]] for Policy from 2003 until 2005. In October 2005, Miers was nominated by Bush to be an [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] to replace retiring Justice [[Sandra Day O'Connor]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/03/scotus.miers/index.html|title=Bush picks White House counsel for Supreme Court|date=October 4, 2005|access-date=2007-01-04|publisher=CNN}