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New Obama appointees reflect heretofore underrepresented communities

By Richard Binder

President Obama has named four new federal judges for California, three of them Asian Americans, who have long been underrepresented on the federal bench.

The president named U.S. Magistrate Judges Edward M. Chen and Richard G. Seeborg to the Northern District bench. Both have served there as magistrate judges since 2001. He also named Dolly Gee, managing partner of the Los Angeles law firm Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers LLP, to the Central District bench. A week earlier, he named Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jacquelyn H. Nguyen to the District Court in Los Angeles.

They will be brought before the Senate for confirmation after its summer recess.

In addition, the president has appointed Fremont resident and attorney Ro Khanna to the U.S. Commerce Department.  Khanna, 32, who specialized in intellectual property law at O'Melveny & Myers' San Francisco office, was sworn in Monday as deputy assistant secretary for domestic operations of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, International Trade Administration. Among his duties will be to lead trade missions to countries like India and China.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).