AANHPI Federal Judges

 

Federal Article III Snapshot 

U.S. Supreme Court: 

• There has never been an Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander on the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Judge Sri Srinivasan was a finalist for the Scalia vacancy under Obama.

• Judge Amul R. Thapar was a finalist for the Scalia and Kennedy vacancies under Trump.
  

U.S. Courts of Appeals:

• 16 active Asian American, Native Islander, and Pacific Islander federal appellate court judges out of 179 federal appellate court judges:[2] Jacqueline H. Nguyen (9th Cir.); Sri Srinivasan (D.C. Cir.); Raymond T. Chen (Fed. Cir.); Amul R. Thapar (6th Cir.); James C. Ho (5th Cir.); John Nalbandian (6th Cir.); Neomi Rao (D.C. Cir.); Michael H. Park (2d Cir.); Kenneth K. Lee (9th Cir.); Patrick J. Bumatay (9th Cir.); Lucy H. Koh (9th Cir.); Jennifer Sung (9th Cir); Roopali Desai (9th Cir.); John Z. Lee (7th Cir.); Florence Y. Pan (D.C. Cir.); Cindy K. Chung (3rd Cir).
  
  
• 2 senior status AANHPI federal appellate court judges: A. Wallace Tashima (9th Cir.); Denny Chin (2d Cir.).


• 1 federal appellate court nominee from the AANHPI community waiting for confirmation: Eric Tung (9th Cir.)

U.S. District Courts & U.S. Court of International Trade

• 51 active AANHPI District Court judges and 2 Court of International Trade judges out of 674 District Court Judges and 9 Court of International Trade judges in the United States:Dana Makoto Sabraw (S.D. Cal.); George H. Wu (C.D. Cal.); Dolly M. Gee (C.D. Cal.); Edmond E. Chang (N.D. Ill.); Cathy Bissoon (W.D. Pa.); Miranda Du (D. Nev.); Pamela K.M. Chen (E.D.N.Y.); Derrick K. Watson (D. Haw.); Vince Chhabria (N.D. Cal.); Manish Shah (N.D. Ill.); Theodore Chuang (D. MD.); Indira Talwani (D. Mass.); Amit Mehta (D. D.C.); Jennifer Choe-Groves (Ct Intl.); Karen Gren Scholer (N.D. Tex); Jill Aiko Otake (D. Haw.); Nicholas Ranjan (W.D. Pa); Martha M. Pacold (N.D. Ill.); Anuraag Singhal (S.D. FL); Diane Gujarati (E.D.N.Y.); Regina M. Rodriguez (D-Col.); Zahid Quraishi (D-N.J.); Angel Kelley Brown (D-Mass.); Tana Lin (W.D. Wash.); Sarala Nagala (D. Conn); Jinsook Ohta (S.D. Cal.); Shalina D. Kumar (E.D. Mich.); John H. Chun (W.D. Wash.); Robert Huie (S.D. Cal.); Nina Y. Wang (D. Col.); Mia Roberts Perez (E.D. Pa.); Arun Subramanian (S.D.N.Y.); Wesley Hsu (C.D. Cal); Dale Ho (S.D.N.Y.); Nusrat Choudhury (E.D.N.Y.); Myong J. Joun (D. Mass.).; Rita Lin (N.D. Cal.); Susan K. LeClercq (E.D.M.I.); Kenley Kato (C.D. Cal.); Micah W.J. Smith (D-Haw.); Shanlyn A.S. Park (D. Haw.); Loren AliKhan (D.D.C.); Lisa Wang (Ct Intl.); Jasmine H. Yoon (W.D. Va); Sunil R. Harjani (N.D. Ill.); Edward Kiel (D.N.J.); Eumi Lee (N.D. Cal.); Sanket Bulsara (E.D.N.Y.); Dena Coggins (E.D. Cal.); Meredith Vacca (W.D.N.Y.); Mustafa Kasubhai (D. Or.); Amir H. Ali (D.D.C.); Sharad Desai (D. Ariz.); Anne Hwang (C.D. Cal.)
• 7 senior status and 1 retired Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander district court judges: Anthony Ishii (E.D. Cal.); Susan Oki Mollway (D. Haw.); George H. King (C.D. Cal.) (retired); Edward M. Chen (N.D. Cal.); Kiyo A. Matsumoto (E.D.N.Y.); George H. Wu (C.D. Cal.); Lorna Schofield (S.D.N.Y.); Leslie E. Kobayashi (D. Haw.).