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Sing, Lillian Kwok was born on November 13, 1942 in Shanghai, China.
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Lillian Kwok Sing, American Superior court judge. Named First Asian Woman Judge in Northern California, Asian American Bar Association, 1985; recipient Trial Judge of Year award, Trial Lawyers Association, 1989, Presiding Judge award Lawerys' Club of San Francisco, 1989, Outstanding Jurist award San Francisco Women Lawyers Alliance, 1993.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Occidental College, 1964; Master of Social Work, Columbia University, 1966; Juris Doctor, University of California San Francisco, 1975.
Career
Associate director, Chinese New Comer Svc. Center, San Francisco, 1969-1971; lawyer, Simmons & Ungar, San Francisco, 1975-1977; lawyer solo practitioner, San Francisco, 1977-1981; presiding judge, San Francisco Municipal Court, 1988-1989; judge, San Francisco Municipal Court, since 1981.
Membership
Founding member Chinese for Affirmative Action, San Francisco, 1971. Vice chair San Francisco Civil Svc. Commission, 1978; board directors Gay Asian Pacific Alliance, Cmty.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Project, San Francisco, since 1993.
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Nationality
American
Awards
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Named First Asian Woman Judge in Northern California, Asian American Bar Association, 1985. Recipient Trial Judge of Year award, Trial Lawyers Association, 1989, Presiding Judge award Lawerys' Club of San Francisco, 1989, Outstanding Jurist award San Francisco Women Lawyers Alliance, 1993.Named First Asian Woman Judge in Northern California, Asian American Bar Association, 1985. Recipient Trial Judge of Year award, Trial Lawyers Association, 1989, Presiding Judge award Lawerys' Club of San Francisco, 1989, Outstanding Jurist award San Francisco Women Lawyers Alliance, 1993.