Wendy Duong

Wendy N. Duong is the first Vietnamese American to be appointed as a judge in the United States. She served as an associate municipal judge and magistrate in Texas. At age 24, she became the first Asian American woman appointed by the Houston Independent School District to an executive position.

Life in exile

She and her family left South Vietnam when their capital city was under siege by the invading North Vietnamese Army during the fall of Saigon to the Communist forces in April 1975, when she was sixteen years old.

Education

She attended Southern Illinois University and graduated summa cum laude. She graduated from the University of Houston Law Center and earned her LL.M. from Harvard Law School. She currently serves as a professor of corporate law at the University of Denver.

Bibliography

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ee also

List of Asian American jurists

External links

* [http://www.nwasianweekly.com/20062443/briefly20062443.htm Pioneer lawyer to visit Seattle]
* [http://www.vabanc.org/ncvaa2006.htm 2006 Scholarship Dinner and National Conference]