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Challenges faced by female judges

Probably the same challenges I still face as a judge, which is that you still get stereotyped. At that period of time, I mean, Asian American women were not lawyers and so besides being mistaken for the interpreter or the court reporter or just treated badly, I said you get a lot of "sweethearts" a lot of brushing you off, a lot of assuming that what you have to say isn’t important, and that even as a young lawyer, even as a partner at my law firm, if I was with a young Caucasian man they always, the other side would always talk to him. And ask him his opinion, and ask him what is the client going to do? And I would have to stop and say excuse me, it’s my client. This is my case and I am the partner on the case, and they would just kinda go… "Really?" You get a lot of that… I feel, a lot of women of color on the bench feel that we get a lot less respect than do say white males or even white females, and there's a feeling more that they can be disrespectful to us and that-that is okay -- of course it’s not and they learn that once they’ve had an interaction or two with me. You know, I work very very hard to make sure that I have control of my courtroom and that people understand that women of color can be the boss in this situation, but it’s still an issue.


asiático-americanos jueces abogados (lawyers) estereotipos mujeres

Fecha: July 11, 2019

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: Kayla Tanaka

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum; Japanese American Bar Association

Entrevista

La juez Holly J. Fujie es una juez sansei en el Tribunal Superior del condado de Los Ángeles en California desde 2012. Creció en West Oakland, California, en un vecindario diverso. Sus padres fueron encarcelados cuando eran niños durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero no compartieron sus experiencias con ella hasta que creció. Esto afectó su punto de vista sobre las leyes y el gobierno y la motivó a seguir una carrera como abogada y luego como juez.

Como abogada, se involucró con varias asociaciones de abogados de minorías, incluyendo el Colegio de abogados japonés-americanos y programas de tutoría. Fue la primera presidenta asiática-estadounidense del Colegio de abogados de California en 2008. (Julio de 2019)

Yamamoto,Mia

La discriminación racial la preparó para convertirse en la primera abogada litigante transgénero

(n. 1943) Abogado transgénero japonés-estadounidense

McKenna,Sabrina Shizue

La jueza Marie Milks: su heroína y mentora

(n. 1957) Juez de la Corte Suprema de Hawái.

McKenna,Sabrina Shizue

Confianza como joven asiáticoamericana

(n. 1957) Juez de la Corte Suprema de Hawái.