A 1937 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Mr. Miller was executive officer in the enforcement department of the Office of Prize Administration during World War II. He later was associate general counsel for the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.
Mr. Miller was instrumental in creation of the Atomic Energy Commission to regulate the development of nuclear power under civilian control, rather than military, after invention of the atomic bomb.
In 1947, Mr. Miller became Midwest Region attorney for the American Jewish Congress in Chicago, and in the late 1950s joined D'Ancona & Pflaum, where he became managing partner. During the past 15 winters he was a visiting professor in the University of San Diego School of Law graduate program in taxation.
A former Glencoe village trustee, Mr. Miller was president of the Bureau on Jewish Employment Problems, a trustee of North Shore Congregation Israel and a board member of the Illinois chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. He received a Torch of Justice Award from the ACLU in 1984.
Thomas Yockey
Retired Decatur attorney Thomas Jean Yockey, a resident of St. Elmo since 1998, died Feb. 11 at age 80 in St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital, Effingham. A 1950 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, he served in the Army during World War II, receiving three Bronze Stars.
Mr. Yockey began his law practice in Newton and later was a judge of the 4th Circuit in Jasper County. He also was a field representative for the Veterans' Administration. From 1964 until his retirement in 1983, he was an assistant Macon County state's attorney in Decatur.
Dianna Zimmerman
Peoria attorney Dianna Dentino Zimmerman died Feb. 28 at age 66 in St. Francis Medical Center. She was a 1966 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.
In addition to her law practice, Mrs. Zimmerman was an assistant Illinois attorney general in the Peoria office during the 1990s. Survivors include a brother, Peoria attorney Verne E. Dentino.
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