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1965: Patsy Mink becomes the first Asian American woman elected to the U.S. Congress. 1971: Norman Mineta becomes the first Asian-American mayor of a major city (San Jose, CA) in the United States. [51] 1971: Herbert Choy becomes the first Asian-American U.S. federal court judge, appointed to the U.S. court of appeals for the ninth circuit. [52]
First Asian American female to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court: Emma Ping Lum (1947) around 1958 [13] [14] First Latino American female to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court: Vilma Socorro Martínez (1967) in 1977 [40] [41] First Native American female to win a U.S. Supreme Court case: Arlinda Locklear (1976) in 1983 [42] [43 ...
She is the third woman, the first woman of color, the first Hispanic, and the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court. [3] [a] Sotomayor was born in the Bronx, New York City, [4] to Puerto Rican-born parents. Her father died when she was nine, and she was subsequently raised by her mother.
Ona Wang: [80] First Asian American female (and Asian American in general) to serve as the U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York (2019) Valerie Figueredo: [81] First Latino American female to serve as the U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York (2022)
Chinese immigrants working in the cotton crop (1890) in Peru.. The first Asian Latin Americans were Filipinos who made their way to Latin America (primarily to Cuba and Mexico and secondarily to Argentina, Colombia, Panama and Peru) in the 16th century, as slaves, crew members, and prisoners during the Spanish colonial rule of the Philippines through the Viceroyalty of New Spain, with its ...
With respect to the House of Representatives, California was the first of 13 states to elect an Asian American to the House (1956), and Oklahoma is the most recent to do so for the first time (2020). Three Asian-American women have been elected to the Senate (two of whom currently are incumbents and represent Hawaii and Illinois, respectively ...
Jinsook Ohta: [106] First Asian American female (who is of Korean descent) to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (2021) Sunshine Sykes (2002): [107] [108] First Native American [female] to serve on the United States District Court for the Central District of California (2022)
First South Asian female (federal judge): Cathy Bissoon (1993) in 2011 [121] First Filipino American female (federal judge): Lorna G. Schofield (1981) in 2012 [122] First openly lesbian Asian American (federal judge): Pamela K. Chen (1986) in 2013 [123] First openly lesbian Latino American (federal judge): Nitza Quiñones Alejandro (1975) in ...