In collaboration with his father, Hugh resisted the infamous 9066 Executive Order imposed on Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. enrolled at UC Berkeley’s law school and became active within International House. 14, 2019 at the age of 100, was an extraordinary figure. Lawyer and Advocate of Japanese Americans Two years later, Wong was elevated to the Superior Court in which he served for over 20 years. Judge Wong died on March 10 th, 2006 at the age of 85. He was the first Asian American to be appointed Deputy Legislative Counsel serving the California State Legislature, and the first Asian American to be appointed a Deputy State Attorney General. During his time as Deputy State Attorney General, he was appointed to the Municipal Court of the Los Angeles Judicial District in 1959 which made him the first Chinese American to sit on the bench in the continental United States. In 1949, Wong became the first Chinese American graduate of Stanford Law School. After leaving UC Berkeley, Wong joined the Army Air Corps during World War II and became one of eleven B-17 Flying Fortress navigators to graduate in his class at Mather Field in Sacramento. He attended Bakersfield College where he received his Associate of Arts degree and then transferred to UC Berkeley. Wong was born May 17 th, 1920 in Hanford, California and was raised not too far from Bakersfield, California. “Our greatest pleasure in those days was the folk dance evenings, where students from different, and sometimes hostile, countries danced with each other in friendship and harmony.”įirst Chinese-American judge in the continental U.S.ĭelbert E. She served on the boards of the American Friends of Hebrew University, American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam, International House of UC Berkeley, and the Institute for International Education. She was a founding member of the Women’s Interfaith Dialogue on the Middle East and served on both the national and international boards of the New Israel Fund. She then headed the foundation’s Taiwan office in 1988 until her retirement in 1992. Though a majority of her career was mainly focused on Asia, her communal work focused a lot in the Middle East.
Army. In 1954, Edith worked for the Asia Foundation and then in 1979, she moved to Manila where she headed the foundation’s Philippines office. After her years of being an interpreter, she worked with Jewish refugees in a camp taken over by the U.S. Coliver graduated as the summa cum laude. In 1945 she worked as a translator at the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco and a few years after that, she went back to Germany and translated the pretrial testimony for high-ranking Nazi officer Hermann Goering. She received her bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley, studying International Relations and Languages. Two years later, she and her family moved to San Francisco, California. She moved to London with her family in 1936 after being denied an academic award for being Jewish. First female Field Office Director for the Asia FoundationĮdith Smith was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1922.
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