Past Honorees

Year Award Recipient
2022 Lifetime Achievement Award The Honorable Kirk H. Nakamura
2022 Community Service Award Brooke Weitzman / Elder Law & Disability Rights Center
2021 Judicial Excellence Award Hon. Joanne Motoike 
2021 Community Partner Award O’Melveny & Myers
2021 Community Service Award Asian Americans in Action 
2020 NO EVENT
2019 Community Partner Award Crowell & Moring LLP
2019 Judicial Excellence Award Judge Deborah Chuang Servino, Superior Court of California, County of Orange
2019 Community Service Award Nathan Watanabe, Watanabe & Suemori, LLP
2018 Program honoring Judge Nakazato  
2017 Inspire Award Ashleigh Aitken
2017 Community Champion Award Mary Ann Foo
2017 Community Partner Award Asian Americans Advancing Justice-OC
2016 Judicial Trailblazer Award Hon. Jay C. Gandhi
2016 Corporate Service Award Union Bank
2015 OCAABA recognized APA women leaders for their recent election to public office Peggy Huang - Yorba Linda Council Member (both a presenter and honoree)
2015 OCAABA recognized APA women leaders for their recent election to public office Lisa Bartlett - Orange County Supervisor, 5th District
2015 OCAABA recognized APA women leaders for their recent election to public office Ling Ling Chang - Assembly Member, 55th District
2015 OCAABA recognized APA women leaders for their recent election to public office Young Kim - Assembly Member, 65th District
2015 OCAABA recognized APA women leaders for their recent election to public office Janet Nguyen - Senator, 34th Senate District 
2015 OCAABA recognized APA women leaders for their recent election to public office Michelle Steel - Orange County Supervisor, 2nd District
2014 Lifetime Achievement Award The Honorable Lance Ito
2014 Judicial Excellence Award Honorable Andrew Guilford
2013 Judge of the Year Hon. Franz Miller
2013 Lifetime Achievement Award Hon. Kazuharu Makino, ret.
2013 Community Service Award Think Together
2012 Public Service Award Recipient Hon. Cheri Pham
2012 Attorney of the Year Paul O. Hirose
2011 Lifetime Achievement Award Hon. Arthur Nakazato
2011 Corporate Service Award KIA Motors America 
2011 Trailblazer Award Receipient Carol C. Lam
2010 Lifetime Achievement Award The Honorable Ming W. Chin, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
2010 Community Service Award Asian Pacific American Legal Center
2009 Attorney of the Year Andrew Do
2008 Outstanding Achievement Award Hon. Kirk Nakamura
2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Dean Parham Williams
2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Jeannie Luong

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