Frank H. Wu
American legal scholar
Frank H. Wu (Chinese: 吳華揚; pinyin: Wú Huáyáng) is an American legal scholar who has served as the president of Queens College of the City University of New York since 2020. He was previously the William L. Prosser Distinguished Professor at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. Wu was also the first Asian American to serve in that position. In November 2015, he announced he would return to teaching.
Early life and education
Wu was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 20, 1967, to a Taiwanese American family. Wu's parents were immigrants from Taiwan to the United States. Wu's father was an engineer at Ford Motor Company who lived in Detroit, Michigan.
When Wu was a teenager, a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, was killed by two white autoworkers in Highland Park, Michigan. The multiple criminal and civil cases that ensued throughout the 1980s have been recognized as birthing the Asian American victims and Asian American movement, and were marked as the 34th Michigan Legal Milestone in 2009. It was the Vincent Chin case that inspired Wu to pursue an active role in civil rights advocacy and the law.
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