Pioneer Award Recipient: Judge Theodore Chuang, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland
Community Appreciation Award Recipient: Shankar Duraiswamy, Covington & Burling LLP
Membership Appreciation Award Recipient: Marita EtcubaƱez, Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Rising Star Award Recipient: Michael L. Huang, Terris, Pravlik & Millian LLP
2018 APABA-DC Award Recipients
Pioneer Award Recipient: John C. Yang, Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Community Appreciation Award Recipient: Sunu P. Chandy, National Women's Law Center
Membership Appreciation Award Recipient: Scott Lee, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Rising Star Award Recipients:
Christine Berger, Office of U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono
Jayna M. Rust, Thompson Coburn LLP
2017 APABA-DC Award Recipients
Pioneer Award Recipient: Esther H. Lim, President-Elect of the District of Columbia Bar and Partner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP
Community Appreciation Award Recipient: Professor Cynthia Lee, Research Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Membership Appreciation Award Recipient: John C. Truong, Assistant United States Attorney, Civil Section, Washington D.C.
Rising Star Award Recipients:
Jeffrey Sun, Assistant General Counsel, Oath Inc.
Candice C. Wong, Assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Section, Washington D.C.
2016 APABA-DC Award Recipients
Pioneer Award Recipient: Michelle K. Lee, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Community Appreciation Award Recipient: Jose "Joe" Monge Montano, Jr. (Posthumous), former Executive Director, National Federation of Filipino American Associations
Membership Appreciation Award Recipient: Sun E. Choi, founding member, DC Metro Law LLC
Rising Star Award Recipients:
Shuchi Batra, Assistant General Counsel, U.S. General Services Administration
Lei Mei, co-founder and managing partner, Mei & Mark LLP
2015 APABA-DC Award Recipients
Pioneer Award Recipient: Javade Chaudhri, Partner, Jones Day
Community Appreciation Award Recipient: Annamaria Steward, Associate Dean of Students at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
Membership Appreciation Award Recipient: Elina Hum, Partner, Hum Law Firm PLLC
Rising Star Award Recipients:
Eden Forsythe, Legislative Counsel for Representative Sander Levin
Maya Song, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Cybercrime Unit, Eastern District of Virginia
2014 APABA-DC Award Recipients
Pioneer Award Recipient: Norman Y. Mineta, Former Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Transportation
Community Appreciation Award Recipient: The Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee, United States District Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia
Membership Appreciation Award Recipient: Tacie H. Yoon, Associate, Crowell & Moring LLP
Rising Star Award Recipients:
Helen Y. Lee, Associate, Paul Hastings LLP.
Taron K. Murakami, Senior Associate, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
2013 APABA-DC Award Recipients
Pioneer Award: The Honorable John Tran, Virginia Circuit Court
Community Appreciation Award: The late Laura Rinaldi of the DC Bar Pro Bono Immigration Legal Advice Clinic
Member Appreciation Award: The 2012 NAPABA Convention Planning Committee
Rising Star Awards:
Elbert Lin, Solicitor General of West Virginia
Thomas Lue, former Acting General Counsel of the White House Office of Management and Budget
2012 APABA-DC Award Recipients
Pioneer Award: Stuart J. Ishimaru, Director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Community Appreciation Award: Darrell G. Mottley, Principal shareholder of Banner & Witcoff, Ltd
Member Appreciation Award: Tina Matsuoka, Executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA)
Rising Star Awards:
Christopher D. Kang, Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Counsel to the President, in charge of the selection, vetting, and confirmation of President Obama’s judicial nominees
Vasu Muthyala, Counsel at O'Melveny & Myers LLP
APABA-DC is an affiliate of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.