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First Asian American judge in Kansas [510] Michael E. Whitaker Los Angeles County Superior Court (2014– ) California: active [511] G. Michael Witte Wayne Superior Court (Judge Pro Tem: 2009); Dearborn Superior Court (2000–2008); Dearborn County Court (1985–2000) Indiana: retired [512] Alvin T. Wong State Court of DeKalb County, Division 1 ...
Judges sitting ad hoc on the International Court of Justice, as of 22 July 2010 [1] Judge Nationality Appointing State Case(s) including parties and years of initiation to deposition Georges Abi-Saab Egypt Mali: Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Republic of Mali) 1983–1986 Adetokunbo Ademola Nigeria Ethiopia: South West Africa (Ethiopia v.
Susan Naomi Oki Mollway (born November 6, 1950) [1] is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the first East Asian woman and Japanese-American woman ever appointed to a life-time position on the federal bench.
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 ] 1972: Patsy Mink becomes the first Asian-American Democratic candidate for U.S. president.
Asian-American jurists are poorly represented in the federal judicial system, and there has never been a Supreme Court justice of Asian background. According to a 2019 report of the Center for American Progress, [ 67 ] among active federal judges serving on U.S. courts of appeals, 10 were Asian-Americans, equal to the proportion as in the ...
Dorothy Chin Brandt (April 9, 1946 – January 27, 2025) was an American judge. She became the first female Asian American judge in the state of New York when she was elected to the New York City Civil Court in 1987. [1] She was also the first Chinese American to be elected to public office in all of Manhattan. [2]
She is the first Asian-American female to serve as a federal appellate judge. [14] She is also the first Vietnamese-American federal judge, and the first Asian-Pacific American female federal judge in California. [15] In 2012, she was speculated to be a candidate for the Supreme Court. [16]
This is a list of the first women lawyers and judges in Asia.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as obtaining a law degree.