President Obama has nominated Lucy Koh, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge, to the federal bench in San Jose. If confirmed, she would be the nation's second Korean American federal judge.
Koh, 41, a Harvard law graduate, was a U.S. Justice Department attorney on legislative affairs for three years, a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles for three years and a lawyer with a Silicon Valley firm for six years before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed her to the county court in January 2008. Obama nominated her Wednesday.