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Ruth Loyd Miller was born in Ida, Louisiana and graduated form LSU in 1942. She later attended the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. After reading law, she passed the Louisiana Bar Exam in 1957 and was a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. In 1967 she was admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court. As an attorney, she was a tireless advocate for issues that supported women's rights. She was the first woman to serve on the Louisiana Mineral Board; a delegate and first Vice-Chairman of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1973; and in 1984 the first woman to be elected Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State University System of which she was a member for 14 years from 1974-1988. In 1987, she earned a Masters of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She was a member of Mortar Board, Phi Kappa Phi, and the National Woman of the Year for the Delta Zeta Sorority. In 1995 she was admitted to the LSU Alumni Hall of Distinction. Posterity will remember her for her trail-blazing achievements on the subject of the Shakespeare authorship question. She edited and published four books in support of the theory that the Shakespeare canon was written by Edward deVere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. For many years she presented annual lectures at the Huntington Library in California, and wrote numerous articles on the authorship subject. Her work has gained interest and acceptance the world over. She has been recognized by the influential New Yorker Magazine, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times for her achievements and contributions to this important historical debate. The world of Shakespearean authorship studies lost one of its greatest champions this past September 15th, the legendary Ruth Loyd Miller. For many of us, Ruth's editions of Looney, Clark, and both Wards (bound in purple covers and brimming with illustrations and lavish color portraits), are her most enduring legacy, for not only did she maintain the worldwide availability of these seminal works but she also provided her own copius research and brilliant annotations, and her aptly named companion volume, "Oxfordian Vistas." As many Oxfordians, Shakespearean students and scholars know from personal experience, Ruth Miller answered all queries about the Authorship with boundless enthusiasm, generously bringing her years of study into play, sharing it all with a sublimely ironic wit and humor in an ever-courtly Mississippi Delta drawl. For Ruth the voice on the other end of the telephone line could belong to one whose unique contribution would ultimately trigger the great sea-change in the world's view of the man who was Shakespeare, thus she always treated you as if you might be that one. It is with a keen sense of her profound contribution to all who are engaged in this extraordinary adventure, and to all those who will embark on this journey of discovery, that we honor and celebrate the life of our beloved friend and mentor Ruth Loyd Miller. We are deeply blessed to have known her, and she will live in our hearts and minds to the end of our days.

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