Alameda County (Hayward)
Career Highlights: Elected to the Alameda County Superior Court, 2008; principal, Hayashi & Associates, San Francisco, 2004-08; director, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Sacramento, 1999-2003; counselor to the deputy secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington D.C., 1998; directory, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington D.C., 1993-97; national director, Japanese American Citizens League, San Francisco, 1991-93; attorney, Asia Law Caucus Inc., San Francisco, 1979-91
Law School: UC Hastings College of the Law
Career Highlights: Elected to the Alameda County Superior Court, 2008; principal, Hayashi & Associates, San Francisco, 2004-08; director, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Sacramento, 1999-2003; counselor to the deputy secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington D.C., 1998; directory, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington D.C., 1993-97; national director, Japanese American Citizens League, San Francisco, 1991-93; attorney, Asia Law Caucus Inc., San Francisco, 1979-91
Law School: UC Hastings College of the Law
HAYWARD — Judge Dennis Hayashi was part of the litigation team on a landmark civil rights case that vacated a decades-old conviction against Fred Korematsu, who fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to prove the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was unconstitutional.
Hayashi was about a decade removed from law school in the early 1980s when the case was argued in San Francisco. He couldn’t... (continued)
