# Patrick N. Millsaps

Patrick Neill Millsaps (born March 16, 1973) is an American attorney and film producer working for Kane Studio, LLC.

## Early life and education

Millsaps was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Cobb County, Georgia, where he attended McEachern High School.
He enrolled in the University of Georgia School of Law in 1997 and obtained his Juris Doctor in 2000.

## Legal and political careers
### Legal career

After passing the Georgia bar in 2000, Millsaps worked for criminal defense attorneys Ed Garland and Don Samuel. He later practiced law with his mentor, Hylton B. Dupree, Jr.
In 2001, six months after receiving his bar license, Millsaps filed the first lawsuit on behalf of a charter school against a school district in the state of Georgia. Millsaps represented Stone Mountain Charter School in a suit against the DeKalb County school board regarding funding. The suit alleged that the DeKalb school board was discriminating against the charter school and breaching its contract by allotting less money per student than to other schools in the district. The school board settled the suit, although it denied any wrongdoing, citing the 1998 charter school law that did not provide guidelines for funding.
Millsaps founded his own law firm in 2004, which merged in 2011 with Hall Booth Smith, where he was a partner. In 2008, Millsaps represented the Georgia Department of Community Health as Special Counsel to Governor Sonny Perdue. In 2010, Millsaps obtained a $1.5 million jury verdict for the family of a man killed by a drunk driver.

### Presidential campaign

On December 26, 2011, Millsaps volunteered as a deputy general counsel for Newt Gingrich's 2012 campaign for the Republican nomination amid a decline in Gingrich's polling numbers heading into the Iowa Caucus. After working for the campaign for a month and helping orchestrate Gingrich's primary win in South Carolina, Gingrich promoted Millsaps to chief of staff following the Florida primary and reorganized the campaign's structure.

## Show business

Millsaps began his career in show business as a talent manager before transitioning to film production. His first film as executive producer came about when a principal backer of the film, representing 20% of the budget, withdrew just 5 days before shooting was scheduled to begin. The producers of the film sought Millsaps' assistance, and he secured the required financing in less than a day.I'll see You In My Dreams I'll see You In My Dreams, starring Blythe Danner and Sam Elliott, was completed on a $1 million budget and grossed more than $7 million at the box office. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
In December 2015, Millsaps founded Londonderry Entertainment, a talent management and production company. The company was subsequently restructured, with three subsidiaries: a film finance and production company, a television and digital media finance and production company, and a targeted film marketing company. Londonderry ceased operations in 2018.
In 2019, Millsaps founded Kane Studio, a real estate development company, to design and build a new production studio in Georgia. The Kane project will be located in an Opportunity Zone. The facility is expected to be operational in the summer of 2022 and is projected to include a film and television production studio on a 1500-acre site, with more than 650,000 square feet of sound stages. In 2009, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed the first tax incentive bill to encourage film and television production in the state. At the time, Perdue credited Millsaps for his contribution to the effort.
In 2016, Millsaps publicly criticized the Georgia General Assembly's "Religious Liberty" bill, warning that its passage would result in a Hollywood boycott negatively impacting the state economy. Under pressure from detractors, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal vetoed the legislation.

## Ariana Grande & Manchester Arena Bombing

Following the May 2017 bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, Millsaps wrote an open letter to Grande that went viral. After sharing the letter on Twitter, it was viewed millions of times, shared over 100,000 times, and liked by pop stars Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, and Grande herself. Millsaps' letter received worldwide media attention. In 2018, Millsaps' letter was published in "Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell" by Travis Elborough.