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(Austin - May 18, 2004) - Houston lawyer Daniel David
Hu has received the Justice David Wellington Chew Achievement Award for
exemplary professionalism and outstanding accomplishment from the State
Bar of Texas Asian Pacific Interest Section.
Hu is a Deputy Chief, Civil Division, with the United
States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas. He is a founding
member of the Asian Pacific Interest Section and served as its first chair
from 1995 to 1997.
Hu currently serves as a commissioner on the Texas Access
to Justice Commission and as a director and executive committee member of
Lone Star Legal Aid. From 1998 to 2001, he was a member of the Board of
Directors of the State Bar of Texas and was awarded a State Bar of Texas
Presidential Citation in 2001.
He is a past president of the Asian American Bar Association
in Houston and received the President's Award from the Houston Bar Association
for his service as co-chair of the Minority Opportunities in the Legal Profession
Committee.
Hu graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Rice
University and holds a B.A. and M.A. in chemistry. He is an honors graduate
of the University of Texas School of Law.
The Justice David Wellington Chew Award, established in
2003, is given to a Section member for exemplary professionalism and professional
accomplishment. The award is named for Justice Chew, a Justice of the Eighth
District Court of Appeals in El Paso since 1994. Justice Chew is the first
Asian American Court of Appeals Justice in Texas. The award was presented
to Hu during the Asian Pacific Interest Section Retreat in Austin in April.
Formed in 1995, the Asian Pacific Interest Section (APIS)
of the State Bar of Texas was created to advocate the common professional
interest of lawyers of Asian-Pacific Islander heritage and those having
an interest in the affairs of the Asian community and the law of countries
on the Pacific Rim.
The State Bar of Texas is an administrative agency
of the Supreme Court of Texas that provides education programs for the legal
profession and the public, administers the minimum continuing legal education
program for attorneys, and manages the attorney discipline system.
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