Rose Cuison-Villazor | Rutgers Law School

Rose Cuison-Villazor is Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers Law School where she previously served as Interim Co-Dean (2021-2023) and Vice Dean (2019-2021). Professor Cuison-Villazor is also Director of the Center for Immigrant Justice, which conducts publicly engaged research and policy work on progressive immigration and citizenship laws. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Her overall research agenda examines the extent to which laws, policies, and norms include and exclude individuals and groups from membership. She teaches and writes in the areas of immigration and citizenship law, property law, and race and the law.

Professor Cuison-Villazor’s scholarship has appeared in top law journals in the country, including California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review Forum, Michigan Law Review, and New York University Law Review. She is working on a monograph, Forbidden Love: Race, Citizenship, and the American Family (NYU Press, forthcoming 2027), and a co- authored book, AsianCrit at the Intersection (University of California Press, forthcoming 2027) (with Bob Chang).

She is also co-author and co-editor of two edited volumes, Legislating a New America: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and Its Contributions to Law and Society (with Gabriel “Jack” Chin) (Cambridge University Press 2015), and Loving v. Virginia in a “Post-Racial” World: Rethinking Race, Sex and Marriage (with Kevin Maillard) (Cambridge University Press 2012). In addition, she is co-author of three casebooks, including Immigration and Citizenship, Process and Policy (10th Ed.) (with T. Alexander Aleinikoff, David A. Martin, Hiroshi Motomura, Maryellen Fullerton, Juliet Stumpf, and Pratheepan Gulasekaram) (forthcoming 2026); Integrating Spaces: Property, race, and Identity (with Al Brophy and Kali Murray) (2023); and Race and Races, Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (4th Ed.) (with Juan Perea, Richard Delgado, and Osamudia James) (2022).

Prior to joining the Rutgers Law School faculty, Professor Cuison-Villazor served on the faculty at the University of California Davis School of Law, Hofstra Law School, and Southern Methodist University School of Law. She has served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, Fellow in Residence at NYU School of Law’s Birnbaum Women Leadership Center, and Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley School of Law Center for Law.

Professor Cuison-Villazor obtained her LL.M from Columbia Law School and J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law.

Marvin S. C. Dang | Law Office of Marvin S.C. Dang, LLLC and Nelson & Kennard, LLP

Marvin S. C. Dang has been an attorney in Honolulu, Hawaii since 1978. He is the Managing Member of the Law Offices of Marvin S. C. Dang, LLLC, which he established in 1981. The five-attorney Hawaii law firm focuses on creditors’ rights, lobbying, governmental relations, legislation, real estate transactions, estate planning, and probate. His clients are major national and local financial institutions and lenders.

Separately and additionally, Mr. Dang is a partner in Nelson & Kennard, LLP, a California law firm doing business in 10 states. He co-manages the Hawaii office of the firm which focuses on civil litigation.

Mr. Dang was Senior Vice President, Secretary, Director, and in-house Counsel of an FDIC-insured Hawaii financial institution for 11 years in the 1980s and 1990s. In the 1990s, he was a hearings officer (per diem) with the Hawaii State Judiciary. During the 1980s, he served as a State Representative in the Hawaii State House of Representatives and was an Assistant Minority Floor Leader.

In a historic election, Mr. Dang was elected as the Secretary of the American Bar Association (ABA) in 2023 to a 3-year term (2023-2026). He is the first Asian American attorney and the first Hawaii attorney to serve as an ABA officer in the ABA’s 145-year history. He joined the ABA in 1975 when he was a first year law student. Mr. Dang’s active involvement with the ABA began in 1976. He has held leadership positions in four ABA Divisions: Law Student Division (Circuit Governor 1977-1978, Representative 1976-1977); Young Lawyers Division (Executive Council Member, District Representative); Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division (Division Director, Council Member); and Senior Lawyers Division (Immediate Past Chair 2019-2020, Chair 2018-2019, Council Member 2014-2020). Mr. Dang has been a member of the ABA Board of Governors since 2020. He’s on the Board’s Member Services Committee (2023 to present). He was on the Board’s Profession, Public Service and Diversity Committee (2020-2023) and chaired the Awards Subcommittee. Mr. Dang serves in the ABA House of Delegates. He was appointed in 2018 as a Minority Member-at-Large on the ABA Nominating Committee and was on its Steering Committee (2018-2020). Starting in 1979, Mr. Dang has received numerous ABA Presidential appointments to standing and special committees and other entities: Council of the Fund for Justice and Education (FJE); Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession; Standing Committee on Publishing Oversight; Coalition for Justice; Standing Committee on Delivery of Legal Services; Standing Committee on Group and Prepaid Legal Services; Standing Committee on Law and the Electoral Process; and Special Committee on Youth Education for Citizenship. He’s a member of the ABA’s FJE President’s Club and the ABA’s FJE Society of Saratoga. Beginning in 2007, Mr. Dang has volunteered for ABA Day in Washington, D.C. (grassroots initiative). He’s served on the ABA Day Planning Committee. For the ABA Section Officers Conference’s 2023 and 2019 Fall Leadership Conferences, Mr. Dang was on the Planning Committee. Mr. Dang is a Patron Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Among Mr. Dang’s leadership positions in Hawaii are: current Director and immediate past Chair of the Collection Law Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association; current Director of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association-Hawaii; current Secretary-Treasurer and former President of the Hawaii Financial Services Association; former Vice Chair and Acting Chair of the Hawaii Mortgage Foreclosure Task Force; and former Vice Chair of the Hawaii Identity Theft Task Force.

Mr. Dang has been a leader with various national organizations. For the National Creditors Bar Association (NCBA), he was the Parliamentarian (an officer position) and a Director; he is the first Asian American attorney and the first Hawaii attorney to be a NCBA officer. With the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), Mr. Dang has been a participant with NAPABA Lobby Day (grassroots initiative) since 2015. For The George Washington University Law Alumni Association, Mr. Dang served as a President-elect and a Director.

Over the years, Mr. Dang has received national awards and recognition. In February 2025, Mr. Dang was named as the “Advocate of the Month” in “Advocate Spotlight” of the Washington Letter published by the American Bar Association’s Governmental Affairs Office. The National Creditors Bar Association in 2024 honored Mr. Dang with the “President’s Award” for his “outstanding service, commitment, and dedication to the legal community and NCBA.” Mr. Dang was the recipient in 2018 of the “Stockton Guard Award” from The George Washington University Law School. The Award is to “honor an alumnus/alumna who has graduated 40 years ago or more and who has led an extraordinary career since their law school graduation and showed dedication and commitment to the betterment of the law school.” In 2006, the “Small Firm Practitioner Merit Award” was presented to Mr. Dang by the American Bar Association’s Solo, Small Firm, and General Practice Division.

Mr. Dang earned his J.D. degree from The George Washington University Law School (1978) and his B.A. degree from the University of Hawaii (1974). He graduated in 1971 from Punahou School (high school) in Honolulu.

Mr. Dang, his wife Dr. Seulyn Au, and their three children reside in Honolulu.

Daniel D. Hu | United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas

Daniel David Hu is a career prosecutor who currently serves as the Chief, Civil Division, United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. He joined the office in 1992 and was promoted to Civil Chief in 2016. He has tried both criminal and civil cases to verdict and argued appeals at the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Federal Circuit. In 2008 Mr. Hu led the first Border Fence condemnation team. Prior to serving as an AUSA, he was in private practice and was a law clerk to United States District Judge Norman W. Black.

Mr. Hu founded the Asian Interest Section of the State Bar of Texas in 1995. He later served as the first APA minority director on the State Bar of Texas Board. He was also an initial Commissioner on the Texas Access to Justice Commission from 2001-2009. His other bar leadership includes serving as President of the Houston Asian American Bar Association and President of the Federal Bar Association SDTX Chapter. He has served in many NAPABA roles starting as the 1990 Convention Program Chair, pro bono committee co-chair, co-author of Interpreting Justice: Progress and Challenges in Language Access, Southwest Regional Governor, and is currently serving as a board member of the NAPABA Law Foundation.

Mr. Hu is a longtime board member of Lone Star Legal Aid and its predecessors. Over the last 32 years he has served as Board Chair three times: 1997, 2007-9 and 2017-2021, ensuring everyone, especially victims of natural disasters, has access to justice. He is committed to civics education and has served as President of Law Focused Education, Inc. and Chair of the State Bar of Texas Law Focused Education Committee.

Outside the legal area Mr. Hu serves as a trustee of the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center and as a community associate at his alma mater, Rice University. He is a graduate of the University of Texas Law School.

Lily Yan Hughes | Syracuse University College of Law

Lily is Assistant Dean at Syracuse University College of Law, overseeing strategy and operations for the Admissions & Financial Aid Office, the Marketing & Communications Office, the Office of Career Services, and SU Abroad. She has also been appointed by the Chancellor as a member of the University Leadership Team.

Previously, Lily was the Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Arrow Electronics, Inc., responsible for the 120+ member global legal, compliance and trade compliance organizations based in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Prior to joining Arrow, Lily served as the Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Public Storage, an S&P 500 and FT Global 500 company with $55 billion+ market cap. She provided leadership and oversight for all legal and internal audit matters, including board, corporate securities, governance, capital markets, litigation, employment, real estate, compliance, operations, intellectual property, M&A, business continuity, enterprise risk management, government affairs, investor relations, and external communications. While Lily was CLO of Public Storage, she also served as General Counsel to PS Business Parks, an affiliated(42% owned by Public Storage) NYSE company with $4.8+ billion market cap and advised a separate board of directors and executive team. She also provided legal oversight to the General Counsel and legal team of another affiliated European company, Shurgard (previously owned 49% by Public Storage in a joint venture; currently $4.5+ billion market cap), which she helped to spin-off in a successful IPO.

Prior to joining Public Storage in January 2015, Ms. Hughes served in roles of increasing responsibilities for almost 18 years in the legal department of Ingram Micro, an Orange County-based former Fortune 100 (now privately owned) and the world’s largest wholesale information technology and mobile devices distributor with at that time. Lily’s last role was Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Corporate, M&A and Finance, the #2 corporate lawyer of the company, with primary legal responsibilities for board matters, securities, governance, treasury, tax, strategic partnerships, and executive compensation matters and as global legal lead on all mergers and acquisitions and finance transactions.

Lily took a short hiatus from law practice to manage real estate, oil and gas partnership interests and other assets for the City of Hope near Los Angeles. City of Hope is a private, not for-profit clinical research center, hospital, and graduate medical school.

Lily is currently Chair and has served on the of board of directors of DirectWomen since October 2021. Previously, she served on the global board of the Association of Corporate Counsel (“ACC”) for three years and served on the Executive Committee for two years - overseeing the CEO and executive team, and strategy for serving over 43,000 in-house counsel members in 80+ countries. Lily also served as President and on the board of directors for seven years with one of the largest chapters of ACC. She served as a member of the Audit and Program Committees of the national American Heart Association based in Dallas, Texas. Lily was also Chairman of the Board for one of the largest American Heart Association affiliates in Southern California. Lily previously served as an independent director, chaired the Nominating and Governance Committee and also served on the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee of NUBURU, Inc.

In 2021, Lily was selected to be included in the Agenda Diversity 100, a directory of board-ready director candidates from groups historically underrepresented in the boardroom. The directory was curated by a selection committee consisting of board directors, investors and other corporate governance experts and each honoree was vetted by a team of independent journalists. Agenda is the Financial Times’ publication for corporate board members.

Lily has also been recognized by numerous publications and organizations, including being honored in 2021 and 2020 as a Power 50 Leader (C-Suite Women) by the National Diversity Council, selected to participate in the prestigious DirectWomen Board Institute in 2019, being honored as National General Counsel of the Year by the National Women in the Law Awards in 2018, and in 2017 as the Public Company General Counsel of the Year by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Lily was awarded her Juris Doctor from University of California Berkeley School of Law, and her undergraduate degree from University of California, Berkeley, after beginning her college studies at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.

Lily was born and raised in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States when she was 11. She speaks conversational Cantonese. She has also completed 13 Half-Marathons.

Sandra Leung

Sandy Leung is the former Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Bristol Myers Squibb Company. She led the worldwide Law Department and was responsible for a wide range of legal areas including intellectual property, commercial and regulatory law, litigation, corporate governance, securities and transactions including licensing, acquisitions and divestitures. She also had responsibility for Compliance & Ethics, Environment, Health & Safety, Corporate Security and Corporate Philanthropy.

Sandy was the Executive Sponsor of Bristol Myers Squibb’s BOLD (Black Organization for Leadership and Development) People & Business Resource Group. Sandy joined Bristol Myers Squibb in 1992 as a staff attorney in the litigation department. She was promoted to positions of increasing responsibility and was elected Corporate Secretary in 1999. In September 2006, she was appointed Interim General Counsel. In February 2007, she was named General Counsel.

Sandy began her legal career as Assistant District Attorney at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in New York City where she was an original member of the Child Abuse Bureau. She ended her prosecutorial career, after trying more than 40 jury trials to verdict, as a member of the prestigious Homicide Investigations Unit where she conducted investigations of unsolved homicides linked with drug gang activity.

Sandy is on the board of directors of the Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the board of directors of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. Sandy is a graduate of Tufts University and Boston College Law School.

Alan Tse | Jones Lang LaSalle

Alan K. Tse is the Global Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Jones Lang LaSalle, the Fortune 200 Real Estate Services Company with 112,000 employees worldwide. Alan leads a team of 200 plus lawyers worldwide and is a member of the global leadership team. In addition to his Legal and Compliance responsibilities, Internal Audit, Risk and Business Continuity reports into him.

Prior to Jones Lang LaSalle, Alan was the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Petco, the pet specialty retailer with over 1500 stores in the United States and Mexico where he led all legal, compliance and regulatory affairs matters for the Company as well as managed the procurement, risk and internal audit functions. Prior to Petco, Alan was the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Churchill Downs, Inc. In addition to the Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs also owns and operates casinos and thoroughbred racetracks throughout the country. Alan was formerly Vice President and General Counsel of LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. where he was responsible for all legal and regulatory matters for LG’s $5 Billion mobile phone business in North America and sat on the company’s senior management committee. Prior to joining LG, Alan was the Vice President and General Counsel of Ligos Corporation, a venture capital backed software company based in Silicon Valley and prior to Ligos, Alan was the Vice President of Strategic Development and General Counsel of Centerpoint Broadband Technologies, Inc., a Silicon Valley telecommunication equipment company.

Alan started his career as a business and technology attorney at Brobeck Phleger and Harrison LLP in their Silicon Valley office representing technology companies and venture capitalists. Alan served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Corporate Counsel from 2013-2019 and served as Board Secretary and chaired the Membership Committee and Advocacy Committees during his tenure.

Alan is a member of the Committee of 100 and serves on its Board of Directors. He is also the co-founder and serves on the Board of the Asian American Legal Foundation. The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association named him one of its Best Lawyers Under 40 in 2005 and recently awarded him with its Diversity in Action award in 2022. Alan was named as a Legend of the Law by the ABA/Burton Foundation in 2020 and the Financial Times named him one of its Top 20 In-House Legal Leaders in 2022. Alan was named by the National Association of Women Lawyers with their Lead by Example Award in 2023.

Alan holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley where he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.

The Honorable Sue Pai Yang | Retired Judge of Compensation, New Jersey

The Honorable Sue Pai Yang was the first Chinese American appointed as a judge in New Jersey. She served on the Workers’ Compensation Court in Newark, where she heard cases involving workplace injuries. Her most memorable trials and decisions concerned individuals who alleged psychological disabilities due to harassment/workplace bullying.

Upon retirement, Judge Yang became a founding member of the National Workplace Bullying Coalition (NWBC) and chaired its 2014 Convention at Rutgers Law School, Newark.

Judge Yang has held numerous leadership positions and served on many boards including the International Association of Women Judges, the National Association of Women Judges, New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Minority Concerns, the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association, the Advisory Board of the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts, and the Pacific Asian Coalition of New Jersey, which she helped found. In 2011 she chaired the National Association of Women Judges Conference in New Jersey. Judge Yang initiated the founding of the Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey and served as its first President from 1985 to 1986. She was also a founding member of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and elected as Board Secretary in 1991. Judge Yang was the first Asian American elected to the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Bar Association and has also served on the Board of the National Girl Scouts USA.

Numerous honors and awards have been bestowed upon Judge Yang through the years for her commitment to justice and the greater good of the legal community and the community at large.

Judge Yang received her B.S. from University of Maryland with high honors, M.S. from Cornell University, and J.D. from Rutgers Law School, Newark. Judge Yang has now retired to La Jolla, California.