Background
Kato, Eileen A. was born on September 5, 1950 in Ogden, Utah, United States. Daughter of Akio George and Sadie (Aoki) Kato.
Kato, Eileen A. was born on September 5, 1950 in Ogden, Utah, United States. Daughter of Akio George and Sadie (Aoki) Kato.
University of Utah; San Jose State University (Bachelor of Science, 1976. M B A., 1977); University of Santa Clara (Juris Doctor 1980). Phi Kappa Phi: Beta Gamma Sigma.
Business Editor, Santa Clara Law Review, 1979-1980.
Associate, Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, San Francisco, 1980-1983; senior trial attorney, Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Seattle, 1983-1989; associate, Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen, Seattle, 1989-1992; associate, Hiscock & Barclay, Seattle, 1992-1994; judge, King County District Court, since 1994. Special assistant to the United States Attorney, 1984-1989. Judge pro tempore King County Superior Court, 1993-1995, Seattle District Court, Seattle Municipal Court, 1992-1994, magistrate pro tempore, 1992-1994.
Arbitrator Better Business Bureau, 1984-1994. Board directors Japanese American CitizensLeague, since 1994. Member N.W. Minority Job Fair Committee, since 1990, board directors, since 1994, workshop co-chair.
Board directors Empty Space Theatre, since 1992, N.W. Asian American Theatre, 1993-1996, New Beginnings Shelter for Battered Women and Children, 1993-1994. Board of trustees educational opportunity program U. Washington, 1993-1996. Member American Bar Association (business, taxation and sports and entertainment section), Washington State Bar Association (member opportunities for minorities in law committee 1993-1996), King County Bar Association (creditor-debtor, corporation and business section, association legal clinic 1993-1994, chair ethnic diversity in legal profession committee 1993-1994), Asian Bar Association Washington (instructor community law program since 1990, judicial rating committee 1992-1993, Executive Board 1988-1992), National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (Board of Governors 1991-1993), Womens Business Exchange, Washington State Trial Lawyers Association (member long-range planning committee 1993-1994, women in the law committee 1993-1994), Greater Seattle Business Association.