NEW YORK — Patricia Miller, daughter of Maureen Miller of Lewiston and a Lewiston High School graduate, has been promoted to chief of the Special Federal Litigation Division of New York City’s Law Department.

Miller has worked for the past four years as deputy chief of the division and has tried more than 60 cases in federal court and supervised dozens more.

Before working in the division, Miller was a trial supervisor and a senior trial attorney for the department’s Labor and Employment Division. She is also an adjunct professor at the Fordham University School of Law.

She completed her undergraduate work at Fordham University and obtained her law degree from the William and Mary Law School in Virginia. She was admitted to practice in New York in 1990.