Haniyah J. Miller was born in Queens, New York and now resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, Jason and two children, Kyndall and Tyler. While attending Moreno Valley High School in Moreno Valley, California, she served as the president of the Black Student Union and president of the Shakespeare Literary Club. In 2007, she graduated magna cum laude as a Faculty Scholar from Georgia State University with a degree in Political Science, pre-law. She received the Outstanding Literary Achievement Award for graduating with a 4.0 in all English courses as an English minor. While at Georgia State University, Haniyah J. Miller was a member of the Mock Trial Team and the Golden Key International Honor Society.  She also won publication in the Georgia State University literary magazine. Haniyah J. Miller has  been a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority since 2001.

Prior to law school, Haniyah J. Miller had a career in risk management. Presently, Haniyah is a third year law student at Georgia State University School of Law and the former vice president of the Georgia State University BLSA chapter. She serves as a student attorney in the Low Income Tax Clinic defending impoverished clients against the Internal Revenue Service. She has received both the Georgia Association of Black Woman Attorneys Scholarship and the Gate City Bar Association Foundation Scholarship for 2009. She also serves as a member of the board of directors for a non-profit, Alternate Life Paths Program as well as the Student Member-at-Large for the Georgia Association of Black Woman Attorneys. She currently works for the CEO of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority as a legal intern. In the summer of 2010, Haniyah will intern for Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams. She has also been awarded a prestigious internship for the fall of 2010 with Georgia Supreme Court Justice Robert Benham, the first African-American Georgia Supreme Court Justice.

Haniyah J. Miller attributes her drive, dedication, and success to her family, living by the Winston Churchill mantra, “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained”.