Biography

Gabriel Millar joined SMITH | ROBINSON as an Associate Attorney in November 2026.

Before joining the firm as an attorney, Gabriel served as a Law Clerk at SMITH | ROBINSON beginning in June 2025, primarily assisting with the firm’s litigation practice.

His prior experience includes clerking for the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office, Capital and Collateral Litigation division, in the Office of the Governor under Henry McMaster, supporting the Governor’s litigation efforts, legislative agenda, and executive actions, and as an Administrative Law Extern with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, where he supported agency counsel on administrative and environmental law matters.

Additionally, Gabriel worked as a research assistant to Maj. Gen. Tom Mullikin on a book concerning environmental conservation and ecological stewardship, and to Ambassador Robert O’Brien, 27th National Security Advisor to the President, on a paper addressing hostage affairs policy and international negotiations.

Gabriel earned his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina Joesph F. Rice School of Law in 2026, where he was inducted into the Order of the Barristers, named a Best Team winner in the J. Woodrow Lewis Memorial Moot Court Competition, and recognized as an Honorary Fellow of the Lincoln Douglas Society. During law school, he served as Vice President of the Student Bar Association, Vice President of the National Security & Law Society, and a Board Member of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Society, in addition to participating in the John Belton O’Neall Inn of Court, Phi Delta Phi Honor Society, the Federalist Society, and the Moot Court Bar.

Prior to law school, he earned a Master of Public Policy from Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy, specializing in American Politics and State & Local Government with a capstone on U.S.-China relations, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Georgia, with a senior thesis on the Afghanistan War. During graduate school, Gabriel’s was published by the Pepperdine Policy Review as an author, where he was also a student editor. His research interests there included war and strategy, political systems, and immigration. He also served as a microeconomics tutor and as a student ambassador for the Pepperdine School of Public Policy.