Former Luers teacher faces another suit in child seduction case
Victim said she has "lost enjoyment of life," among other things.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. ---A Bishop Luers English teacher who pleaded guilty to two counts of child seduction in February 2024 and served nearly two years in prison is now facing the same allegations in Allen Superior Civil Court.
Jordan M. Miller, now 37, admitted to having sex with a 17-year-old female student in 2018 and was sentenced to eight years, with four years suspended, by Allen Superior Court Judge Fran Gull.
In December 2025, he was accepted into the prison re-entry program and has been reporting monthly on his progress, according to online documents.
Now Miller is in front of Allen Superior Judge Jason Custer on civil charges by one of the women, M.G., who has made claims in a filing dated August 2024 that she has suffered “serious and permanent injuries, incurred medical expenses, suffered pain and mental anguish, suffered psychological and emotional damage, incurred legal expenses, suffered disability and disfigurement, lost education opportunities and wages, lost enjoyment of life and will continue to suffer such damages in the future.”
Miller’s attorney, Ryan Gardner, appeared at his pre-trial conference Tuesday morning in Custer’s office with, presumably, input from M.G.’s attorney, Ashley N. Hadler, with Garau Germano P.C. in Indianapolis.
A jury trial was set for November 2027, Gardner said.
Bishop Luers High School and the Diocese of Fort Wayne South Bend were also named as defendants and are represented by attorney Robert T. Keen, Jr. with Barrett McNagny LLP in Fort Wayne.
In the filing, Miller did admit he was an English teacher at Bishop Luers, where he was also a track coach, according to the probable cause affidavit and did admit to pleading guilty to Count 1 which places him with the victim between February 2018 and June 2018.
Miller, who was 29 in 2018, denied pretty much everything else. He taught at Luers for two years starting in 2016 and turned in his resignation letter on June 27, 2018 claiming burn-out, court documents said.
The victim did not come forward to the Fort Wayne Police Department until September 2022.
There were three women in the probable cause who said their relationship began with walking Miller’s dog when he was away. It progressed from there and one girl said he wrote an English paper for her in exchange for sexual favors.
He admitted to writing her English paper, but he said it was “to test the grading abilities of another teacher," court documents said.
That woman said she was 18 when the sexual relationship started, however, the entire charge is “sexual misconduct; defendant has a professional relationship with victim.”
The first victim and another student were both 17 when the sexual relationship began.
The Probable Cause attempted to attend the hearing in Judge Custer’s office but was told the press wasn’t allowed at a pre-trial conference.
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