James Ho | |||||||||||||||
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| 何俊宇 | |||||||||||||||
_(cropped).jpg) Ho in 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | |||||||||||||||
| Assumed office January 4, 2018 | |||||||||||||||
| Appointed by | Donald Trump | ||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Carolyn Dineen King | ||||||||||||||
| 4th Solicitor General of Texas | |||||||||||||||
| In office May 12, 2008 – December 9, 2010 | |||||||||||||||
| Attorney General | Greg Abbott | ||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Ted Cruz | ||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Jonathan F. Mitchell | ||||||||||||||
| Personal details | |||||||||||||||
| Born | February 27, 1973 Taipei, Taiwan | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Allyson Newton (m. 2004) | ||||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Education | Stanford University (BA) University of Chicago (JD) | ||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Chinese | 何俊宇 | ||||||||||||||
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James Chiun-Yue Ho (Chinese: 何俊宇; born February 27, 1973) is a Taiwanese-born American lawyer and jurist serving since 2018 as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was appointed by President Donald Trump, becoming the Fifth Circuit's only Asian-American judge and the only judge to be an immigrant.[1]
Ho served as the Solicitor General of Texas from 2008 to 2010, becoming the first Asian-American to hold the position.[2] He has been identified as a potential Supreme Court nominee for Donald Trump's second term.[3][4][5][6]
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