Politics, Law and Government
- Michelle Park Steel, California State Board of Equalization, elected to represent 8.5 million California taxpayers.
- Jun Choi, former Mayor of Edison, New Jersey
- Dr. Steven Choi, Irvine, California City Councilmember and candidate for California State Assembly
- Judge Herbert Choy, appointed to the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and first Asian American appointed to the federal bench.
- Wendy Lee Gramm, chairwoman of the Regulatory Studies Program at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, the wife of former United States Senator Phil Gramm. Gramm held several positions in the Reagan Administration, including heading the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA).
- Hoon-Yung Hopgood, member of Michigan State House of Representatives, first Korean American elected to public office in Michigan
- BJ Kang, FBI agent, lead investigator of insider trading case against Raj Rajaratnam
- Emil J. Kang, non-profit arts administrator and educator, Nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Council on the Arts, first Korean-American to be nominated
- Sukhee Kang, Mayor of Irvine, CA
- Young Woo Kang, policy advisor of the National Council on Disability of the U.S. White House in 2001
- Harry Kim, Mayor of Hawaii County
- Jae Y. Kim, Hackensack, New Jersey attorney appointed to Central Municipal Court judgeship in Bergen County, New Jersey in January 2011.
- Jay Kim, former Republican Congressman from California
- Harold Hongju Koh, Dean of Yale Law School and former Assistant Secretary of State during the Clinton administration (See below.)
- Ronald Moon, Chief Justice of the Hawai'i Supreme Court
- Angela E. Oh, attorney and social/political activist best known for her role as spokesperson for the Korean American community after the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and her position on President Bill Clinton's One America Initiative
- Annabel Park, founder of Coffee Party USA
- Paull Shin, Washington state senator; Korean adoptee
- Anna Song, Trustee on the Santa Clara County Office of Education.
- John Yoo, Berkeley law professor and former Deputy Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice
- Sam Yoon, Boston City Councillor (2005–2009), first Asian American to be elected to the position in the city.
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