Justice David Wellington Chew Award

Nomination Forms

Established in 2002, the Justice David Wellington Chew Award honors those individuals whose selfless contributions benefit the Asian-Pacific American legal

community of Texas. The award was named after Justice Chew, who currently presides as Chief Justice of the Eighth Court of Appeals. APIS is proud to honor Justice Chew for his pioneering achievements as one of the first Asian-Pacific Americans in the Texas judiciary.
Each of the past recipients listed below epitomize Justice Chew's passion and commitment towards helping and advancing Asian-Pacific interests in Texas and throughout the nation.

The Justice David Wellington Chew Award was presented at the 2016 Annual Conference.

	Justice David Wellington Chew	Best Under 40	Champion of Diversity	Outstanding Mentor	Affiliate of the Year	Pro Bono
2017		Kelly Chen Alison Chen Chris Kang	Chad Anson	Sean T. Hamada	SABA Dallas	Ketan Kharod
2016	Albert Lin, Husch Blackwell LLP, Austin	Monika Sing Sanford Representative Gene Wu Jessica Vu	Anna Sankaran	Sakina Rasheed	Houston AABA
2015	Albert Tan, Haynes and Boone, LLP Dallas, Texas
2014	Toni Nguyen, Luminex Corp. Austin, Texas
2013	Michele Wong Krause, The Wong Krause Law Firm Dallas, Texas
2012	Gordon Quan, FosterQuan, LLP (now with Quan Law Group) Houston, Texas
2011	Hon. Herbert Gee Houston, Texas
2010	James Ho, Gibson Dunn Dallas, Texas
2009	Albert Li, Associate Counsel Zimmer, Inc. Austin, Texas
2008	Harry Gee, Harry Gee Principal, Harry Gee, Jr. & Associates Houston, Texas
2007	Kathleen Wu, Partner, Andrews Kurth Dallas, Texas
2006	Hon. Peter Sakai, Judge of the 225th District Court Bexar County, Texas
2005	Hon. Karen Gren Johnson, Judge of the 95th District Court Dallas County, Texas
2004	Daniel David Hu, Deputy Chief, Civil Division U.S. Attorney’s Office (Southern District of Texas)
2003	Hon. Brenda Rhoades, U.S. Bankruptcy Court (Eastern District of Texas)