APALSA Joins APABA in Celebrating Judge Jacqueline Nguyen's Nomination to the U.S. District Court!

Today, President Obama nominated Judge Jacqueline Nguyen to a United States District Court judgeship in the Central District of California.

Judge Nguyen is currently a Superior Court Judge for the County of Los Angeles, a position to which she was appointed in August 2002. She was the first Vietnamese American woman ever to achieve that distinction.

Judge Nguyen received her undergraduate degree from Occidental College in 1987 and her law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1991. From 1991 to 1995, Nguyen worked in private practice where she specialized in civil litigation. From 1995 until August 2002, Nguyen was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California. During her tenure in that office, she served as Deputy Chief of the General Crimes Section. Judge Nguyen was rated well-qualified by the ABA.

Judge Nguyen served as APABA’s second president, during the 1999-2000 term, and is a current member of the APABA's Advisory Board. If confirmed, Judge Nguyen would be the nation’s first-ever Vietnamese American to serve as an Article III judge. She also would be the third-ever APA female Article III judge in the United States, and the first-ever APA woman to serve as an Article III judge in California.

Congratulations Judge Nguyen!