[2] Miller studied law in the office of her uncle, Donald Morison, who was Newfoundland's attorney general.

She served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) of the British Red Cross in the 1st Berkshire Association and also trained as an ambulance driver.

Instead, she joined her sister, Agnes Miller Ayre, to become a leading player in the suffragette movement in the early 1920s, helping to win Newfoundland women the right to vote.

[3] On October 14, 2016, Janet became an honorary lawyer, along with four members of the Newfoundland Regiment who died in World War I.

Law certificates bearing their names were displayed to the court alongside five of their modern-day counterparts.