Jimmie Carpenter Miller - Kingsport, TN
Attorney at Hunter, Smith & Davis, LLP
Medical Malpractice Defense Lawyers in Kingsport, TN
1212 North Eastman Road Kingsport, TN 37664
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44
Years
Experience
Kingsport Medical Malpractice Defense Lawyer
Updated: 03/02/2026
Areas of Practice
- Medical Malpractice Defense
- Health Care
- Litigation
- Federal Practice
Attorney Information
Overview
With over 35 years of experience as a trial lawyer, Jimmie Miller has tried in excess of 200 jury trials to conclusion in Virginia and Tennessee state and federal courts. She routinely defends medical malpractice cases for hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, and other medical providers. She became the firm’s first female partner in 1986.
Ms. Miller is the 2018-2019 chair of the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility, a position appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court, and is a past president of the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners. Ms. Miller is also a past member of the Tennessee Bar Association’s board of governors.
Pursuant to medical staff bylaws, Mrs. Miller represents hospital administrations and medical executive committees in administrative hearings. She also represents physicians, nurses, and other health care providers before health-related licensing boards or in cases involving the dissolution of medical practices.
In addition to litigating cases concerning health law and medical malpractice defense she has tried cases involving products liability, antitrust, employment, contract disputes, patents, personal injury insurance claims, and Tennessee Consumer Protection Act cases.
Ms. Miller has devoted volunteer hours to helping make sure that the young girls of her community and young women of the legal profession have opportunities that might have made her path somewhat smoother, including serving on the Administrative Committee of First Baptist Church, Kingsport, and as a board member and chair of Kingsport Girls Incorporated.
Awards and Honors
Honors
- AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Selected to The Best Lawyers (2009-2021)
- Selected to Super Lawyers (2009-2020)
- American College of Trial Lawyers, fellow
- Top 50 Women Attorneys in the Mid-South, Memphis Magazine, 2015
- Access to Justice Award, Tennessee Supreme Court, 2015
Other Sources of Feedback About Jimmie Carpenter Miller
Included on the 2025 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
Past Lists
- 2024 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2023 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2022 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2014 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2013 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2012 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2011 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2010 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
- 2009 Mid-South Super Lawyers list
Education
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Legal Education
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University of Tennessee College of Law,
Knoxville,
Tennessee, 1981
J.D.
Honors: With High Honors
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University of Tennessee College of Law,
Knoxville,
Tennessee, 1981
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Non Legal Education
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University of Tennessee,
Knoxville,
Tennessee, 1979
B.A.
Honors: summa cum laude
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University of Tennessee,
Knoxville,
Tennessee, 1979
Current Employment Position(s)
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Partner
Classes and Seminars
- Former Instructor, Research and Writing, University of Tennessee College of Law
Pro Bono Activities
- Tennessee Bar Foundation
- Tennessee Historical Supreme Court Society
- United States Supreme Court Historical Society
- Kingsport Girls, Incorporated, Member
- Administrative Committee of First Baptist Church, Kingsport, member
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 1982
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee, 1982
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1982
Other Affiliations
- Kingsport Bar Association, member
- Tennessee Bar Association, fellow and member
- American Bar Association, fellow and member
- Federal Bar Association, Northeast Tennessee Chapter, past president
- Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility, chair appointed by Tennessee Supreme Court, 2018
- Tennessee Board of Law Examiners, past president
- Tennessee Historical Supreme Court Society
- United States Supreme Court Historical Society
- American College of Trial Lawyers, Tennessee Chapter, past chair, 2017
- Administrative Committee of First Baptist Church, Kingsport, member
- Kingsport Girls, Incorporated, member
Fraternities and Sororities
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Phi Delta Phi
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