LAN QUOC NGUYEN, ESQ.

• Vice-President, Board of Education, Garden Grove Unified School District. Elected Nov. 2002.  
• President, Citizens Oversight Committee, Rancho Santiago Community Collge District.
• Former Commissioner, Planning Commission of City of Garden Grove.
• Attorney, Member of the American Bar Association and California State Bar. Practicing law in Southern California since 1991.
• Activist in the Vietnamese American Community, actively engaged in several advocacy projects relating to  the community's legal rights, political empowerment, human rights in Vietnam or refugee rights for boat people. Featured or quoted in numerous news articles relating to those issues.
• Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Legal Assistance For Vietnamese Asylum Seekers (LAVAS), a non-profit organization formed to advocate and assist Vietnamese refugees in Southeast Asia.
• Former President of  Vietnamese American Bar Association (VABA) in Southern California.
• Columnist, regularly write to Vietnamese publications on legal, political or educational issues significantly affecting the Vietnamese-American communities;
• Commentator, currently host bi-weekly talk shows re legal affairs on Little Saigon Radio and weekly talk shows re legal affairs on VHN-TV. Formerly hosted weekly talk shows in similar format on both Little Saigon Radio and Little Saigon Television;
• Juris Doctor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law;
• Bachelor of Art (Political Science), University of California, Riverside;
• Author, Traditional Vietnamese Law - the Lê Code - and Modern United States Law: A Comparative Analysis, 13 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L.Rev. 141 (1989). The article demonstrated that many of the advanced legal concepts thought to be originated in the western world were actually found in the 15^th Century Le Code. The article was nominated to the Washington Foreign Law Society for best note published nationally;
• Former Recipient, Emiles A. Serres Scholarship and Bernard & Joan Maier Scholarship.