FBANC Joins NAPABA and Affiliates to Support Jennifer Sung's 9th Cir. Nomination

September 16, 2021

FBANC is proud to have joined with NAPABA and a dozen other APA bar organizations throughout the 9th Circuit in supporting the nomination of Jennifer Sung for an upcoming vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals. Her nomination is currently under review by the Senate Judiciary Committee. On June 30, 2021, the White House shared the following about Ms. Sung upon her nomination by President Biden:

Jennifer Sung has been a member of the Oregon Employment Relations Board since her appointment in 2017. Previously, she was a partner at McKanna Bishop Joffe LLP in Portland, where she worked from 2013 to 2017. From 2007 to 2013, Ms. Sung worked at Altshuler Berzon LLP in San Francisco. While in private practice, she was a litigator specializing in labor, employment, and constitutional law, and she represented labor organizations and employees in arbitrations, administrative proceedings, and civil litigation in state and federal courts. From 2005 to 2007, Ms. Sung was a Skadden Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. Ms. Sung served as a law clerk for Judge Betty Binns Fletcher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2004 to 2005. Before law school, she was an organizer with the Service Employees International Union Local 1199 from 1998 to 2001 and with the Service Employees International Union Local 74 from 1996 to 1998.

If confirmed, Ms. Sung would be only one of eleven AAPIs to serve out of a total of 179 authorized federal appellate court judges. On September 14, 2021, Senator Mazie Hirono read statistics from our letter and entered it into the hearing record.

This is an example of how FBANC is able to project our influence beyond our home state on issues that affect us, including judicial nominations, where FBANC’s Judiciary Committee plays such an important role. It is important that our voices are heard, not just here in the San Francisco Bay Area, but on the state, regional, and even national level.

Contact FBANC President-Elect and Co-Chair of the FBANC Judiciary Committee Raymond Rollan (raymondrollan@fbanc.org) for more information.