One hot summer in the early nineties, I was working as a summer extern for Judge Ronald S.W. Lew, a federal judge in Los Angeles. ... Judge Lew — the first Chinese-American district court judge in the continental United States
Wikipedia notes "Ronald S.W. Lew (Chinese name: 刘成威; born 1941) is a U.S. District Court Judge for the Central District of California in the Ninth Circuit. Outside of Hawaii, Judge Lew was the first Chinese-American appointed to the federal bench after being appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987."
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Date: 2012-07-04 09:02 pm (UTC)But what first caught my eye was:
One hot summer in the early nineties, I was working as a summer extern for Judge Ronald S.W. Lew, a federal judge in Los Angeles. ... Judge Lew — the first Chinese-American district court judge in the continental United States
Wikipedia notes "Ronald S.W. Lew (Chinese name: 刘成威; born 1941) is a U.S. District Court Judge for the Central District of California in the Ninth Circuit. Outside of Hawaii, Judge Lew was the first Chinese-American appointed to the federal bench after being appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987."
That's only 25 years ago.
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Date: 2012-07-07 07:40 pm (UTC)