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The Honorable Sue Pai Yang
Judge of Compensation
In this celebratory 90th Anniversary year of Girl Scouting, it is fitting that we honor former National Board Member of Girl Scouts of the USA, the Honorable Sue Pai Yang. Her Girl Scout experiences began the way it does for many new Americans. Born in Chungking, China, Sue immigrated to America at the age of eight with her mother and three brothers to join her father, a professor at the University of Maryland. The first organization she joined was Girl Scouts of the USA when she became a member of a Brownie Troop in Maryland. Here she made many new friends, developed her language skills and gained early confidence in a new world.
Sue graduated from Rutgers Law School in Newark where she served as an editor of the Law Review. After clerking for the Honorable Marilyn Loftus of the Essex County Superior Court, she served as a Deputy Attorney General for New Jersey from 1985 to 1991. In 1991 she opened her own general law practice in Bridgewater, NJ. On January 15, 2002, Sue was appointed to the Worker’s Compensation Court in Elizabeth, NJ.
Judge Yang has devoted much time and energy to addressing issues of fairness, equality and inclusion. She is the founding President of the Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey and is the first Asian American to serve on the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Bar Association. In addition she has held leadership roles in the New Jersey and National Women’s Political Caucus. Close to home and heart, Sue has worked tirelessly as Chair of the Somerset County Cultural Diversity Coalition.
Sue and her husband C.S. Yang, reside in Bridgewater. Their two adult daughters are also lawyers. One daughter is currently working for the U.S. Justice Department in Washington D.C., and her second daughter worked at a law firm in New York City, but is now raising her new baby at home in Manhattan.
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