For Terry Miller, general counsel of the London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, her most vivid memory is neither the 25,000 contracts she oversaw nor the security company she is fighting for backing out of its deal at the last minute. For Miller, an avid equestrienne, the most emotional moment was being part of the Paralympic award ceremony when a British rider won a gold medal.
So how did a former reporter in Cincinnati find her way to London, become an international general counsel for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., then general counsel of the Olympics, you might wonder? As Miller winds down the leftover legal business from the 2012 games, she took time to talk with Corporate Counsel reporter Sue Reisinger about her journey, her love of horses and the challenges of her job. In the interest of disclosure, Miller and Reisinger were University of Dayton Law school classmates in the mid-’70s, and Reisinger worked with Miller’s British-born husband, Jonathan, at the Dayton Daily News.
