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2025 BAAAGC x NAPABA Celebration Honors More Than 200 Bay Area Asian American General Counsel

For Immediate Release:

For Immediate Release:
Date: February 28,2025

The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) and the Bay Area Asian American General Counsel network (BAAAGC) were proud to celebrate and honor the achievements of more than 200 Bay Area Asian American general counsel, a historic high, at this week’s 2025 BAAAGC x NAPABA Celebration. The event, which was held on February 27, 2025, in San Francisco, honored the leaders of the legal departments of a diverse range of companies and organizations including nationally and globally recognized brands such as AMD, Bill.com, Broadcom, Coinbase, Databricks, Google DeepMind, Impossible Foods, Instacart, Juniper Networks, Recology, Reddit, Ross Stores, SurveyMonkey, Unity, VF Corporation, and many more.   

“The 2025 BAAAGC x NAPABA Celebration demonstrates the incredible progress that the Bay Area Asian American in-house legal community has made to break through barriers that have long stymied advancement to the top echelons of the legal profession, as we have long identified in our Portrait Project,” said Thy Bui, President of NAPABA. “NAPABA is grateful to this group of incredible Bay Area lawyers who truly are global leaders for their companies, their industries, and our bar.” 

“BAAAGC is incredibly proud of this landmark achievement,” said BAAAGC Co-Chairs Irene Liu, Thomas Chow, and Stephen Mar. “In 2017, we celebrated the milestone of reaching 100 Bay Area Asian American general counsels. It is encouraging to see that our numbers have more than doubled since then, and we look forward to seeing that growth accelerate.” 

With nearly 450 attendees, the celebration acknowledged a remarkable milestone for Asian American general counsel and the important role that bar organizations such as NAPABA’s Northern California and Bay Area affiliates (including Community Sponsors: Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Silicon Valley, Filipino Bar Association of Northern California, and the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California) play in fostering mentorship, learning, connections, and professional development to ensure that Asian American lawyers have equal opportunity to serving in leadership roles.   

All net proceeds from the event, generously sponsored by leading national firms and companies, are earmarked for two worthy causes. First, they will support the next iteration of the Portrait Project of Asian Americans in the Law, which is the ground breaking, systematic account on how Asian Americans, including in-house counsel and law firm lawyers, are situated in the legal profession. Second, the proceeds will create the Bay Area Asian American General Counsel Summer Public Interest Fellowship at UC Berkeley School of Law to support the work of law students supporting the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander community. 


The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) represents the interests of over 80,000 Asian Pacific American (APA) legal professionals and nearly 90 national, state, and local APA bar associations. NAPABA is a leader in addressing civil rights issues confronting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. Through its national network, NAPABA provides a strong voice for increased diversity of the federal and state judiciaries, advocates for equal opportunity in the workplace, works to eliminate hate crimes and anti-immigrant sentiment, and promotes the professional development of people of all backgrounds in the legal profession.

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NAPABA Applauds the Confirmation of Judge Anne Hwang to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

For Immediate Release:
Date: December 3, 2024		Contact:
Rahat N. Babar, Deputy Executive Director

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the United States Senate confirmed Judge Anne Hwang to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

“NAPABA applauds the confirmation of Judge Anne Hwang,” said Thy Bui, President of NAPABA. “An active member of the community, Judge Hwang is a 2019 APABA Los Angeles Trailblazer in the Law awardee. She will serve in a District with nearly one million AANHPI residents.”  

In 2018, former governor Jerry Brown appointed Judge Hwang to the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Prior to her appointment, Judge Hwang served as a Deputy Federal Public Defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California from 2006 to 2018, becoming Chief Deputy Federal Public Defender in 2018. Before entering public service, Hwang was an associate at Irell and Manella LLP from 2002 to 2006. Hwang received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California School of Law.

“Today, 41 AANHPI Article III judges have been confirmed during the Biden Administration, and 71 AANHPI active Article III judges are serving,” said Priya Purandare, Executive Director of NAPABA. “NAPABA thanks President Biden for nominating Judge Anne Hwang and Senator Padilla and Senator Butler for supporting her nomination.”

The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) represents the interests of over 80,000 Asian Pacific American (APA) legal professionals and nearly 90 national, state, and local APA bar associations. NAPABA is a leader in addressing civil rights issues confronting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. Through its national network, NAPABA provides a strong voice for increased diversity of the federal and state judiciaries, advocates for equal opportunity in the workplace, works to eliminate hate crimes and anti-immigrant sentiment, and promotes the professional development of people of all backgrounds in the legal profession.

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