Contributing his commentary for the Northwest Asian Weekly, Rommel Deleon Clemente calls for more Asian Americans to serve as judges in the federal court and points to incongruous statistics related to their under-representation.
“However, of the 810 Article III judges actively serving on the federal bench, only seven, or less than 1 percent, are Asian American (data as of April 2008), while Asian Americans make up 3.6 percent of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. Census conducted in 2000.”
“This under-representation might come from a lack of Asian Americans in the legal profession. But the Asian American Bar Association (AABA) reports that approximately 5.3 percent of all attorneys in our nation’s largest law firms and 6.3 percent of all law students are Asian American.”
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