Mia F Yamamoto
| Mia F Yamamoto | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 1943 (age 82) Arizona |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Japanese American |
| 💼 Occupation | Lawyer |
| ❤️ Partner(s) | Kimberlee Tellez (m. 2015) |
Mia F Yamamoto (born September 1943),[1] is a Los Angeles-based criminal defense attorney and civil rights activist. Yamamoto is a transgender woman of Japanese American descent, born in the Poston War Relocation Center during World War II.[2][3]
Personal life
Yamamoto attended UCLA's School of Law, where she co-founded the Asian Pacific Islander Law Student Association (APILSA).[4][3]
She married Kimberlee Tellez on September 2, 2015.[5]
Career
Yamamoto was appointed to serve on the California Judicial Council Task Forces on Jury Improvement and on Fairness and Access in the Courts by the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court.[6] Yamamoto served as President of the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice in 2001.[7]
Yamamoto is the recipient of the Rainbow Key Award by the City of West Hollywood,[8] the Liberty Award by Lambda Legal,[9] and the Harvey Milk Legacy Award by Christopher Street West/LA Pride.[10] She has also been honored by API Equality and the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission for her advocacy on behalf of the LGBT community.[11] She has received honors from the Criminal Courts Bar Association,[12] National Lawyers Guild,[13] and the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.[14]
References
- ↑ Wallace, Nina (2019-03-04). "From Poston to the Prison Industrial Complex: Mia Yamamoto's Unwavering Fight for Justice". Densho.
- ↑ Drucker, Zackary (2018-12-07). "After Years of Fighting for Trans Kids, Lawyer Mia Yamamoto Came Out Herself". Vice. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Criminal Defense Attorney Mia Yamamoto Talks Race, Identity, Community". NBC News. 2015-06-25. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
- ↑ "Mia Yamamoto Honored by Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations - JABA". www.jabaonline.org. Archived from the original on 2017-05-13. Retrieved 2017-05-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "'Our LGBT Stories' at SFVJACC". www.rafu.com. 25 August 2016. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
- ↑ Larson, John (April 15, 2003). "TASK FORCE ON JURY SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS" (PDF). California Courts. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Past Presidents". www.cacj.org. CACJ. Archived from the original on 26 February 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "LGBT Community Celebrates Local Luminaries at Annual Awards". West Hollywood, CA Patch. 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
- ↑ "Lavender Graduation". www.lgbt.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-05-12. Retrieved 2017-05-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "LA PRIDE 2012 Community Honorees". archive.constantcontact.com. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
- ↑ "Defense Attorney/Rights Activist Mia Yamamoto Receives Human Relations Award". www.rafu.com. Archived from the original on 2017-05-13. Retrieved 2017-05-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Mia Frances Yamamoto | APAWLA". www.apawla.org. Archived from the original on 2017-05-13. Retrieved 2017-05-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "News". law.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-05-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "ABOUT WLALA - Life Members - Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles". www.wlala.org. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
External links
- Mia Yamamoto on-camera oral history The Outwords Archive, April 7, 2017
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- 1943 births
- American LGBT lawyers
- American LGBT people of Asian descent
- American LGBT rights activists
- American military personnel of Japanese descent
- American transgender women
- LGBT people from Arizona
- American civil rights activists of Japanese descent
- Japanese-American internees
- Transgender rights activists
- UCLA School of Law alumni
- 20th-century American lawyers
- 20th-century American women lawyers
- 21st-century American lawyers
- 21st-century American women lawyers
