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Stewart Kwoh (born September 16, 1948) is an American attorney, educator, and civil rights leader. Kwoh is the founding President and Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles, formerly known as the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC). [1] [2] [3] [4]
AJSOCAL was founded in 1983 as the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC). AJSOCAL is a legal and civil rights organization for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (NHPI). AJSOCAL is located in Los Angeles, California, and also has satellite offices in Orange County and Sacramento. [2]
Following the passage of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, representatives from Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) now known as Asian Americans Advancing Justice, [3] Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice, and Dolores Mission and other voluntary agencies and local legal service ...
Founded in 1972, the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) is the United States' first legal aid and civil rights organization serving low-income Asian-Pacific American communities. [2] The ALC focuses housing rights, immigration and immigrant rights, [3] labor and employment issues, student advocacy (ASPIRE), [4] civil rights and hate violence, [5] national security [6] and criminal reform.
Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Wednesday demanding that he take steps to reduce the growing visa backlog, an issue that has ...
In 2003, Chinese for Affirmative Action, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, and the Asian Law Caucus jointly launched Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE), a Sacramento, California–based organization doing progressive Asian American state-level political advocacy. [1] [2]
The study found that although Asian Americans made up 10% of graduates at elite law schools (more than Asian American's overall share of the U.S. population, 6%), few Asian Americans were underrepresented among U.S. Attorneys (at the time, only 3 of the 94 U.S. Attorneys were Asian American), state elected prosecutors (4 of the 2,437 were Asian ...
First Japanese American judge in the continental U.S. [12] Kathryn Akao Superior Court of Santa Cruz County (1994–2005) California: deceased [13] Benes Z. Aldana: Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals (2005–2017 ) Washington, D.C. retired First Asian Pacific American (Filipino) chief trial judge in the U.S. military [14] Loren AliKhan