Bernice Miller was one of the first women to be a member of the Ohio Bar Association and the first woman to be elected to public office in Seven Hills. She earned an LL.M. in 1963 and an LL.D., Doctor of Legal Letters, in 1968. In 1969, first lady Pat Nixon invited her to an event at the White House marking the centennial of women in law practice in the United States. She was instrumental as the first female attorney to initiate spousal abuse laws in Ohio, practicing law out of her Seven Hills office into her mid-80s. When she passed away, donations in her memory were made to the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Annual Fund.