June 10, 2010 | Capital Area Asian American Democrats
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Judge Lucy Koh was just confirmed by the US Senate as the first Korean American federal judge in history and the first Asian American judge for the Northern District of California, which includes the Bay Area. Since Obama has been in office, the number of active federal judges of AAPI heritage have nearly doubled from a mere eight in January 2009, including Jacqueline Nguyen, the first Vietnamese American federal judge, Dolly Gee, the first Chinese American woman appointed to the federal bench, and Denny Chin's elevation to the Second Circuit, making him the only active AAPI federal appellate judge, only the fifth in history, and the first outside the Ninth Circuit.
More nominations are pending, including Judge Ed Chen for the Northern District of California (cousin to CAAAD's own Todd Wong), Edmond Chang for the Northern District of Illinois (first AAPI nominated to a court covered by the Seventh Circuit), Leslie Kobayashi for the District of Hawaii, and Goodwin Liu for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Obama has already nominated more Asian Americans to be federal judges than any other president in history and will soon have nominated more than all the other presidents combined!
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