Senate Confirms First Vietnamese, Chinese Woman Federal Judges

Posted on January 2, 2010 by John

On Christmas Eve, the United States Senate confirmed Los Angeles attorney Dolly Gee as a member of the U.S. District Court in California’s Central District, making her the first Chinese American woman to ever hold a seat on the federal bench, and one of four Asian Americans currently on the federal bench.

[UPDATE] Via Tuyet via Twitter: The confirmation comes a month after the Senate unanimously confirmed Judge Jacqueline Nguyen to the U.S. District Court, making her the first Vietnamese-American federal judge.

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I'm a Taiwanese-American and was born & raised in Western Massachusetts, went to college in upstate New York, worked in Connecticut, went to grad school in North Carolina and then moved out to the Bay Area in 1999 and have been living here ever since - love the weather and almost everything about the area (except the high cost of housing...)
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