March / April 2007 - Sacramento County Bar Association
March / April 2007 - Sacramento County Bar Association
March / April 2007 - Sacramento County Bar Association
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Onthis<br />
issue's retirement theme, the Asian/Pacific<br />
<strong>Bar</strong> <strong>Association</strong> of <strong>Sacramento</strong> (ABAS) and the<br />
ABAS Law Foundation can report one recent retirement from<br />
the practice of law: bankruptcy attorney and ABAS golf tournament<br />
organizer Mike Nakagawa. The Ninth Circuit made<br />
Nakagawa a United States Bankruptcy Judge in Las Vegas.<br />
Additionally, both organizations have "retired" their 2006 year<br />
and are looking ahead to a busy <strong>2007</strong>.<br />
25th Anniversary: ABAS celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary<br />
on <strong>April</strong> 18, 2006, over a barbeque in the courtyard of<br />
Mason's Restaurant, across L Street from Capitol Park. The weather<br />
was ideal for this outdoor event. The Foundation joined in by<br />
recognizing major donors to its scholarship program.<br />
22 SACRAMENTO LAWYER ■ MARCH/APRIL <strong>2007</strong><br />
Section and Affiliate News<br />
A Year's Activity for Asian <strong>Bar</strong><br />
and ABAS Law Foundation<br />
ABAS presidents at Mason's. Standing: Irv Teranishi,<br />
Rick Sueyoshi, Judge Russ Hom, Jeff Ogata, Nancy Lee,<br />
Yoshinori Himel, Darrel Woo, Henry Nanjo. Seated:<br />
Judge Cheryl Meegan, Mark Morodomi, Assistant Dean<br />
Ruthe Ashley, Lara Dunbar.<br />
By Yoshinori H. T. Himel<br />
President, ABAS Law Foundation<br />
Photos by <strong>Bar</strong>bara Takei<br />
Wine Tasting: The ABAS Law Foundation had its Fourth<br />
Annual Wine Tasting and Silent Auction on May 24, 2006.<br />
Pavilions Shopping Plaza again hosted the event in the<br />
Pavilions Courtyard.<br />
The Foundation raises funds at the Wine Tasting and the<br />
annual ABAS Golf Tournament with the main goal of nurturing<br />
future lawyers who will be activists and give back to the Asian<br />
Pacific Islander communities. Student applicants are evaluated<br />
on three criteria: proven potential for leadership and community<br />
service; financial need; and academic achievement. Several<br />
individuals fund scholarships annually; these include criminal<br />
defense attorney Chuck Pacheco, in memory of his late wife<br />
Alex Jo, the Foundation's former Scholarship Chair; former<br />
Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye installed the ABAS and ABAS Law Foundation boards at the Library and Courts<br />
Building on January 10, <strong>2007</strong>. From left: Justice Cantil; the Asian <strong>Bar</strong>'s Sean Colon, Michael Fang, Secretary<br />
Jennifer Rosario, Treasurer Kathryn Doi, Angela Lai, Vice-President Grace Arupo, President Rebecca Westmore<br />
and President-Elect Dee Brown; and the ABAS Law Foundation's president Yoshinori Himel, Nirav Desai, Mona<br />
Tawatao, Janice Lai, Amilia Sanders, Darrel Woo and Secretary Henry Nanjo. Not pictured: Jeri Paik.<br />
Linda Cabatic and Cy Rickards.<br />
Judge Emily Vasquez, Nancy Lee, Judge Cheryl Meegan, Jeanette Ishii and<br />
Assistant Dean Ruthe Ashley in one of Mason's unique settings, a fourposter<br />
bed.
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