Judges and Judiciary
Mar. 24, 2011
Progress Made, Progress to Be Made
Confirming two pending judicial nominees would add needed diversity to the federal judiciary. By Wendy Chang, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Bryant Yang, the Asian Pacific American Bar Association and Christina Yang, Mayer Brown
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
Wendy Chang
Judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court
Loyola Law School, 1995
Wendy is based in the firm's Los Angeles office. She is a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. She served as an advisor to the State Bar of California's Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct and is a past chair of the State Bar of California's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Wendy is a certified specialist in legal malpractice law by the State Bar of California's Board of Legal Specialization.
For the past two years, two California federal judicial nominations by President Barack Obama have attracted delay and controversy: that of U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward M. Chen for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and that of UC Berkeley School of Law associate dean and professor Goodwin H. Liu for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Each nomination is critical to increasing the diversity of the federal judiciary in areas where it is sorely lacking.
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