James Ho
James Ho | |||||||||||||||
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | |||||||||||||||
| Assumed office January 4, 2018 | |||||||||||||||
| Appointed by | Donald Trump | ||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Carolyn Dineen King | ||||||||||||||
| 4th Solicitor General of Texas | |||||||||||||||
| In office May 12, 2008 – December 9, 2010 | |||||||||||||||
| Attorney General | Greg Abbott | ||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Ted Cruz | ||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Jonathan F. Mitchell | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | February 27, 1973 Taipei, Taiwan | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Allyson Newton (m. 2004) | ||||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Education | Stanford University (BA) University of Chicago (JD) | ||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Chinese | 何俊宇 | ||||||||||||||
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James Chiun-Yue Ho (Chinese: 何俊宇; pinyin: Hé Jùnyǔ; born February 27, 1973) is a Taiwanese American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was appointed in 2018 by President Donald Trump, becoming the Fifth Circuit's only Asian-American judge and the only judge to be an immigrant.
Born to Taiwanese American immigrants, Ho emigrated from Taiwan as a child and graduated from Stanford University and the University of Chicago Law School. He served as the Solicitor General of Texas from 2008 to 2010, becoming the first Asian-American to hold the position. He has been identified as a potential Supreme Court nominee for Donald Trump's second term.