List of Asian Americans - Law

Law

For a list of Asian Americans who are or have served as judges, see List of Asian American jurists.

• Preeta D. Bansal was the Solicitor General for the State of New York (1999–2002).
• Norman Bay was the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico (2000–2002), and the first Chinese-American to hold such a U.S. Attorney position.
• Morgan Chu is a prominent litigator and former Managing Partner of Irell & Manella.
• Viet D. Dinh was a United States Assistant Attorney General and a key drafter of what became the USA PATRIOT Act.
• Heather Fong is the first Asian American woman to head a major metropolitan police department (San Francisco, California).
• Todd Kim is the first Solicitor General for the District of Columbia.
• Harold Hongju Koh is dean of Yale Law School.
• Arsalan Iftikhar International human rights lawyer. Founder of TheMuslimGuy
• Fred Korematsu was a prominent resister of Japanese American internment.
• Carol Lam was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California (2002–2007)
• David Lat is an attorney and blogger for the sites "Underneath Their Robes" and "Above the Law."
• William F. Lee is Co-Managing Partner of the international law firm of WilmerHale.
• Dale Minami is an attorney who helped reverse Fred Korematsu's criminal conviction.
• Rachel Paulose is the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota. She is the first Indian American woman, the youngest attorney, and the first woman in Minnesota to hold this post.
• Frank H. Wu is dean of Wayne State University Law School.
• Bruce Yamashita is an attorney and U.S. Marine Corps officer who worked to expose racial discrimination within the Corps.
• Debra Wong Yang was the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, and is the first Asian American female to serve as a U.S. Attorney.
• John Yoo served in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel and was a drafter of what later became known as the "torture memo."