9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Career Highlights: U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, 1953-56; deputy attorney general, California, 1961-67; Amstar Corporation, 1968-77 (attorney, Spreckels Sugar Division, 1968-72; general attorney and vice president, 1972-77); private practice, Los Angeles, 1977-80; nominated May 1980, confirmed June 1980, assumed senior status June 2004
Law School: Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1961
Career Highlights: U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, 1953-56; deputy attorney general, California, 1961-67; Amstar Corporation, 1968-77 (attorney, Spreckels Sugar Division, 1968-72; general attorney and vice president, 1972-77); private practice, Los Angeles, 1977-80; nominated May 1980, confirmed June 1980, assumed senior status June 2004
Law School: Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1961
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
When Guantanamo Bay opened in 2002 to confine suspected terrorists, Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima saw his past mirrored.
In 1942, Tashima, then 8, began a three-year stretch with his family in an Arizona internment camp after President Franklin D. Roosevelt reacted to Pearl Harbor by locking away 110,000 Japanese-Americans as potential security threats.
Tashima, the first Japanese-American to be appoin... (continued)
