KOREAN-AMERICAN LEADERS IN US GOVERNMENT

    EXECUTIVE BRANCH

    1. Wendy Lee Gramm

       Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairperson, 1988-93. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
       CFTC supervises all US commodities trading, the same way SEC oversees the stock markets. Prior to the CFTC
       post, Mrs. Gramm served as Director, Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission.  Wellesley College, BA
       in Economics (1966), Northwestern, Ph D in Economics (1971).  Both her paternal and maternal grandparents migrated
       to Hawaii in the early part of the 20th century.  Her father,  Joshua Lee, trained as an engineer, returned to Hawaii to
       work at a sugar factory in management position.  Mrs. Gramm was born in 1945, married Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX)
       in 1970.

    2. Shinae Chun

       Director, Bureau of Women, Department of Labor.  Mrs. Chun was nominated to the post by President George W.
       Bush and will start her new position on July 2, 2001. She will be working closely with Elain Chao, the new Secretary
       of Labor. Prior to the Directorship, Mrs. Chun was the Managing Director of the ITR Corporation in Chicago and was
       Director of the Illinois Department of Labor from 1991 to 1999. She was Director of the Illinois Department of Financial
       Institutions from 1989   to 1991 and was Special Assistant to the Governor of Illinois for Asian American Affairs
       from 1984 to 1989.  She is a graduate (1965) of Ewha Women's University in Seoul, and received a Master's degree
       from Northwestern University. Mrs. Chun was born in 1943 and is married to Dr. Kyong Chul Chun, a senior scientist
       at the Argonne National Laboratory.

    3. Harold Hongju Koh

       Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (1998 - 2000).  Koh formerly served as the
       Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center
       for International Human Rights at Yale Law School.  Koh earned a B.A. from Harvard University in 1975, an Honours
       B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford University in 1977, and a  J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1980. He is married
       to Mary-Christy Fisher, an attorney.

    LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

    1. Jay Kim

       Former Congressman (R-CA) from Orange county, California  from 1992 to 1999.  First ever Korean-American to be
       elected to the US House of Representatives.  His political career ended in 1999 as a result of being found guilty of
      several campaign finance law violations.