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Cristeta Pasia Comerford (née Gomez Pasia; born October 27, 1962) is a Filipino-American chef who served as the White House executive chef from 2005 until her retirement in 2024. She is the first woman and first person of Asian origin to hold the post.
Eleanor Concepcion "Connie" Mariano (born 1955), is a Filipino American physician and retired flag officer in the United States Navy.She is the first Filipino American and graduate of the Uniformed Services University of Medicine to reach the rank of Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy as well as the second woman to become Physician to the President, a position that placed her as director of the ...
this building was reconstructed, new lots were purchased, old grounds raised, regraded and parked during american and filipino administrators. extensive improvements were made in 1929–1932 under governor general dwight f. davis and in 1935–1940 under president manuel l. quezon, the first filipino chief executive to occupy this palace.
Resident Commissioners were House delegates from the Philippines, then an American territory. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Two were elected at-large by the Philippine Legislature from 1907 to 1935, and, following the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines , a single Resident Commissioner was appointed by the President of the Philippines ...
Filipino-American World War II veterans at the White House in 2003. Many Filipino veterans traveled to the United States to lobby Congress for these benefits. [279] Since 1993, numerous bills have been introduced in Congress to pay the benefits, but all died in committee. [280] As recently as 2018, these bills have received bipartisan support ...
A naturalized Filipino-American, [1] he was charged with espionage and with leaking classified information to the regime of a former Filipino president. The FBI labeled Aragoncillo the first known case of espionage within the history of the White House.
Thurgood Marshall, Jr. – White House senior staff member during the Clinton Administration, his mother is of Filipino descent; Rose Martinez – Filipino American State Legislator, Hawaii, 2022. [55] Benjamin Menor – Filipino American State Legislator, Hawaii, 1962 [56] Jeff Moneda – City Manager of Foster City, California. [57]
1974, Benjamin Menor appointed first Filipino American in a state's highest judiciary office as Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court. [115] Thelma Buchholdt is the first Filipino American, and first Asian American, woman elected to a state legislature in the United States, in the Alaska House of Representatives. [116] [117]