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Mar. 25, 2013

Jacqueline Hong-Ngoc Nguyen

9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Pasadena)

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9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Pasadena)
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - As the South Vietnamese government collapsed in 1975, Jacqueline Hong-Ngoc Nguyen, aged 10, escaped from Saigon with her family while North Vietnam soldiers closed in.

"It was so traumatic," said Nguyen, the first Vietnamese-American woman to serve on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where President Barack Obama placed her less than a year ago.

"Dad sent us by ourselves fro... (continued)

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