Brett Miller
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Why this score? (51, grade F)
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Why this score? (51, grade F)
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What is pulling the score down
- lowTransparency-9 pts
Practicing litigator in same market as district; potential for firm matters to intersect with district vendors. No specific conflict identified as of 2026-04-16.
Source → - lowTransparency-9 pts
Practicing litigator in same market as district; law firm may take matters that intersect LISD or LISD vendors. No specific conflict identified as of research date.
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What is pulling the score up
- lowPublic Service+9 pts
Attorney / Partner with Miller Fair Henry PLLC.
Source → - lowPublic Service+9 pts
Member with T. John Ward American Inn of Court.
Source → - lowPublic Service+9 pts
Licensed attorney with State Bar of Texas.
Source → - lowPublic Service+9 pts
Admitted to practice with U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas.
Source → - lowPublic Service+9 pts
Place 2 Trustee with Longview ISD Board of Trustees.
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Fairness rules currently active
- · Conflict-of-interest items (family employment, vendor ties, disclosure questions) are scored under transparency, not faith and family alignment.
- · Extended-family ecosystem connections (sibling, cousin, in-law, etc.) cap at low severity unless evidence shows failure to disclose under TX Local Government Code Ch. 171 or failure to recuse on a relevant vote.
- · Household conflicts (spouse / partner / dependent on payroll) keep their recorded severity because the financial nexus is direct.
- · Hard overrides only apply to documented child-safety, parent-rights, or sex-based privacy violations with FACT or DOCUMENTED_INFERENCE labels.
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Good record
- Serves Place 2 on the Longview ISD board.
- Public profile lists occupation as Attorney.
- Attorney / Partner with Miller Fair Henry PLLC.
Voter questions
- Practicing litigator in same market as district; potential for firm matters to intersect with district vendors. No specific conflict identified as of 2026-04-16.
- Practicing litigator in same market as district; law firm may take matters that intersect LISD or LISD vendors. No specific conflict identified as of research date.
Open gaps
- Confirm 2026 filing status with LISD elections coordinator Milagros Cordoba (903-381-2200)
- Gregg CAD property records pull
- Gregg County voter roll primary-history pull
Narrative
What the record says now
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What the record says now
Brett F. Miller is an establishment-rooted Longview attorney with multi-generational ties to the community and the local high school. His public record is consistent with a lawyer-trustee archetype: Longview native, TCU and SMU Law educated, practicing at a locally prominent firm, active in the local federal bar, and serving on the school board during a period of significant district transitions including a new superintendent and a major bond-funded facilities program.
First elected in 2020 after challenging an incumbent educator, Miller was unopposed for reelection in 2023 and, absent a late filing surprise, is again on the ballot in 2026. His publicly stated motivations have been parental (three young children in LISD at the time of his first run) and civic, and he framed his 2020 candidacy as agenda-less curiosity about policy questions such as the SB 1882 charter conversion debate then before the district.
The expanded public-record dive on Miller is mostly open. Property records, voter roll history, firm entity filings, prior campaign finance reports, and his attorney-of-record history in federal court are all retrievable but not yet pulled. The single most important disclosure gap for voters is his legal practice: a practicing litigator can easily end up opposite LISD, LISD vendors, or other trustees in court, and voters should know if that has happened or is likely to.
No negative public-record items have surfaced as of this research date. The appropriate next step is the mechanical records pull described in the workflow, not speculation.
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Board votes and public statements
2023-08-14
Tax rate reduction from $1.3276 to $1.1422 (Passed (board majority; individual vote REQUIRES_FURTHER_EVIDENCE))
Source →2025-02-10
$2.77M surveillance infrastructure contract with Digi Security Systems (Approved (individual vote REQUIRES_FURTHER_EVIDENCE))
Source →Longview News-Journal interview, 2020-02
On first run, said he grew up in Longview, attended LISD, has three young children, and wanted a voice at the board table
Source →East Texas Review, 2024-06
Welcomed Dr. Marla Sheppard as superintendent, calling her credentials and enthusiasm a good fit for the district
Source →Issue positions and public handles
bond and budget
Part of board majority that reduced M&O+I&S tax rate from $1.3276 (2022) to $1.1422 (2023-24); supportive of bond-funded facility upgrades
superintendent views
Publicly supportive of Supt. Marla Sheppard hire in 2024
other
In 2020 stated interest in SB 1882 charter conversion debate
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How this score is weighted
child safety
50
parental rights
50
student privacy
50
curriculum and books
50
transparency
32
fiscal stewardship
50
public service
95
faith and family alignment
50
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