Few Asian-Americans Hold Top Legal Jobs, New Study Says

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Goodwin Liu joined the seven-member California Supreme Court in 2011, he became its fourth sitting member of Asian descent. The number is remarkable.
The other state supreme courts in the U.S. combined have a handful of Asian-American justices. And Asian-American representation on other state courts, the federal bench and among the country’s top prosecutors is similarly scant.
Those findings emerged from a new study by Liu and law students at Yale University