The First Fifteen : How Asian American Women Became Federal Judges /

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In 1998, an Asian woman first joined the ranks of federal judges with lifetime appointments. It took ten years for the second Asian woman to be appointed. Since then, however, over a dozen more Asian women have received lifetime federal judicial appointments. This book tells the stories of the first...

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Autor principal: Mollway, Susan Oki (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Asian American Studies, Asian women, federal judges, judge, Japanese Americans, lifetime appointments, lifetime judges, nomination, American justice, judicial system, adversity, American dream, internment camps, World War II, Vietnamese refugees, Indian immigrants, diversity, biography, female judges, gender inequality, workplace inequality, discrimination, discrimination in the workplace, immigrant.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I Context
  • Diversity in the Federal Judiciary
  • Bridging the Gap
  • Part II The Asian Women Article III Judges
  • 1 Susan Oki Mollway (D. Haw.) (1998)
  • 2 Kiyo A. Matsumoto (E.D.N.Y.) (2008)
  • 3 Jacqueline Hong-Ngoc Nguyen (C.D. Cal.) (2009) (9th Cir.) (2012)
  • 4 Dolly Maizie Gee (C.D. Cal.) (2010)
  • 5 Lucy Haeran Koh (N.D. Cal.) (2010)
  • 6 Leslie Emi Kobayashi (D. Haw.) (2010)
  • 7 Cathy Bissoon (W.D. Pa.) (2011)
  • 8 Miranda Mai Du (D. Nev.) (2012)
  • 9 Lorna Gail Schofield (S.D.N.Y.) (2012)
  • 10 Pamela Ki Mai Chen (E.D.N.Y.) (2013)
  • 11 Indira Talwani (D. Mass.) (2014)
  • 12 Jennifer Choe-Groves (Ct. Int'l Trade) (2016)
  • 13 Karen Gren Scholer (N.D. Tex.) (2018)
  • 14 Jill Aiko Otake (D. Haw.) (2019)
  • 15 Neomi Jehangir Rao (DC Cir.) (2019)
  • Continuing Growth
  • Part III Analyzing the Data
  • Timing of Growth
  • Demographic Factors
  • Attitudinal Factors
  • Why Aren't These Other Asian Women Article III Judges?
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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