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Mr. Minami was a co-founder of the Asian Law Caucus, Inc., a co-founder of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, the Asian Pacific Bar of California and the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans. He was involved in significant litigation affecting civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans and other minorities, including Korematsu v. United States, a lawsuit to overturn a 40 year old conviction for refusal to obey exclusion orders aimed at Japanese Americans during WWII, originally upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in landmark decisions; United Pilipinos for Affirmative Action v. California Blue Shield, the first class action employment lawsuit brought by Asian Pacific Americans on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans; Spokane JACL v. Washington State University, a class action on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans to establish an Asian American Studies program at Washington State University; and Nakanishi v. UCLA, a claim for unfair denial of tenure which resulted in the granting of tenure after widespread publicity over discrimination in academia. Mr. Minami represents Kristi Yamaguchi, the 1992 Olympic Gold Medal skater, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, actor Lane Nishikawa, and others in the fields of media and entertainment. He is counsel to the National Asian American Telecommunications Association and the Asian American Journalists' Association. Mr. Minami has taught at University of California, Berkeley and Mills College in Oakland, CA and has been a Commissioner of the State of California's Fair Employment and Housing Commission, a Commissioner on the State Bar of California, Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation, the Chair of the Attorney General's Asian/Pacific Advisory Committee and a Member of Senator Barbara Boxer's Judicial Screening Committee. He was Chair of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Commission, appointed by President Clinton in 1994. Mr. Minami has received numerous awards including the State Bar President's Pro bono Service Award, an honorary Juris Doctor degree from the McGeorge School of Law, designation of a dormitory at the University of California at Santa Cruz as the \"Queen Liliuokalani-Minami\" Dormitory, awards from the Coro Foundation, the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, the Harry Dow Memorial Fellowship in Boston, the Fred Korematsu Civil Rights Fund Award, the Organization of Chinese Americans, the Japanese American Youth Center and the Centro Legale de la Raza. Mr. Minami is a partner with Minami, Lew and Tamaki in San Francisco, and specializes in personal injury and entertainment law.", "breadcrumbs": [ { "id": "ddr-densho-1000", "model": "collection", "idpart": "cid", "label": "1000", "api_url": "https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000/", "url": "https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000/" }, { "id": "ddr-densho-1000-141", "model": "entity", "idpart": "eid", "label": "141", "api_url": "https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-141/", "url": "https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-141/" } ], "_fields": [ "id", "record_created", "record_lastmod", "status", "public", "sort", "title", "description", "creation", "location", "creators", "language", "genre", "format", "extent", "contributor", "alternate_id", "digitize_person", "digitize_organization", "digitize_date", "credit", "rights", "rights_statement", "topics", "persons", "facility", "chronology", "geography", "parent", "signature_id" ], "record_created": "2016-11-02T15:58:17", "record_lastmod": "2019-03-21T15:53:25", "status": "completed", "sort": 1, "creation": "February 8, 2003", "location": "Seattle, Washington", "creators": [ { "namepart": "Dale Minami", "role": "narrator", "oh_id": 134 }, { "namepart": "Tom Ikeda", "role": "interviewer" }, { "namepart": "Margaret Chon", "role": "interviewer" }, { "namepart": "Dana Hoshide", "role": "videographer" } ], "language": [ "eng" ], "genre": "interview", "format": "vh", "extent": "03:26:04", "contributor": "Densho", "alternate_id": "[denshouid: denshovh-mdale-01]", "digitize_person": "Dana Hoshide", "digitize_organization": "Densho", "digitize_date": "2003-12-01 00:00:00.0", "credit": "Courtesy of Densho", "rights": "cc", "search_hidden": "Dale Minami narrator \nTom Ikeda interviewer \nMargaret Chon interviewer \nDana Hoshide videographer", "ia_meta": { "id": "ddr-densho-1000-141", "original": "", "mimetype": "", "files": {} }, "template": "vh:", "download_large": "denshovh-mdale-01-a.jpg" }{ "id": "ddr-densho-1000-141", "model": "entity", "collection_id": "ddr-densho-1000", "links": { "html": "