第1位台灣出生聯邦女法官

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【更新】台灣讚啦！第1位台灣出生聯邦女法官誕生. Taiwan: Apple Daily, Jan 7, 2016
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/rea ... ew/20160106/768735/
("聯邦法官郭佩宇（Peggy Kuo）正式宣布就職。今天在紐約布魯克林羅斯福法院宣誓典禮中，她先用英語致詞，還不忘以最親切的母語台語感謝爸媽「教我如何做人，鼓勵我讀書，我聽進去了，才有今天成就」")

Note:
(a) Robert Abruzzese, Eastern District judge Peggy Kuo sworn in during robing ceremony. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Jan 6, 2016
www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2 ... ing-robing-ceremony
(sworn in Jan 5 as magistrate judge)
(i) Nominated by president and confirmed by senate, district judges may serve until retired, incapacitated or dead (lifetime tenure).
(ii) United States "magistrate judges are appointed by a majority vote of the federal district judges of a particular district and serve terms of eight years if full-time, or four years if part-time, and may be reappointed."  en.wikipedia

(b) "郭佩宇是台灣的第1位、亞裔第3位美國聯邦法官。"

list of Asian-American jurists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian-American_jurists

The following are those who are alive and not administrative judge

Edmond E Chang 張宜民        United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (based in Chicago)   (judgeship 2010- ; born in New York City to immigrants from Taiwan)
Kevin SC Chang                United States District Court for the District of Hawaii
Edward M Chen                United States District Court for the Northern District of California (based in San Francisco)   (2011- )
Pamela Chen                United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York  2013-
Denny Chin 陳卓光        United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (based in Manhattan)   (born in 1954 in Kowloon)
Dolly M Gee                United States District Court for the Central District of California (based in Los Angeles)   (2010- ; born in California, the daughter of Cantonese immigrants from rural China)
Marilyn D Go                United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Paul Singh Grewal        United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Anthony W Ishii                United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (based in Sacramento)
George Herbert King        United States District Court for the Central District of California  (2012- ; born in 1951 in Shanghai)
Leslie E Kobayashi        United States District Court for the District of Hawaii
Lucy Haeran Koh                United States District Court for the Northern District of California (2010- ; Korean)
Robert N Kwan                United States Bankruptcy Court
Tony Leung                United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
Ronald SW Lew        刘成威        United States District Court for the Central District of California (1987- ; semi-retired)
Jennifer T Lum                United States District Court for the Central District of California
Joaquin VE Manibusan Jr        United States District Court for the District of Guam
Kiyo A Matsumoto        United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Susan Oki Mollway        United States District Court for the District of Hawaii  (1998- ; first Asian woman ever appointed to the federal bench)
Mike K Nakagawa         Chief Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Nevada
Arthur Nakazato                United States District Court for the Central District of California       
Jacqueline Nguyen        United States District Court for the Central District of California
Tu M Pham                United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
Brenda T Rhoades        United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas       
Donna Ryu                        United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Dana Makoto Sabraw        United States District Court for the Southern District of California
Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi        United States District Court for the Central District of California
A Wallace Tashima        United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Amul Thapar                United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
Michael J Watanabe        United States District Court for the District of Colorado
George Wu                        United States District Court for the Central District of California (2007- )
Scott Yun                        United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California