Thursday, December 03, 2009
Vietnamese American Appointed U.S. Federal Judge
The U.S. Senate on Dec. 1 confirmed the nomination of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Nguyen, 44, was the first Vietnamese American woman to serve on the California bench. She will be the first federal judge in California appointed by President Obama, and the first Vietnamese American to serve as a federal judge.
Nguyen was born in Dalat, South Vietnam. Her family moved to the U.S. after 1975 when she was ten.
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