For Immediate Release
May 18, 2004

Contact: Kimberly Schmitt
800-204-2222, ext. 1414
kschmitt@texasbar.com

DANIEL HU HONORED BY ASIAN PACIFIC INTEREST SECTION
OF STATE BAR OF TEXAS

AUSTIN, Texas —   Houston lawyer Daniel David Hu has received the Justice David Wellington Chew Achievement Award for exemplary professionalism and outstanding accomplishment from the State Bar of Texas Asian Pacific Interest Section. 

Hu is a Deputy Chief, Civil Division, with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas.  He is a founding member of the Asian Pacific Interest Section and served as its first chair from 1995 to 1997.

Hu currently serves as a commissioner on the Texas Access to Justice Commission and as a director and executive committee member of Lone Star Legal Aid. From 1998 to 2001, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas and was awarded a State Bar of Texas Presidential Citation in 2001. 

He is a past president of the Asian American Bar Association in Houston and received the President’s Award from the Houston Bar Association for his service as co-chair of the Minority Opportunities in the Legal Profession Committee.

Hu graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Rice University and holds a B.A. and M.A. in chemistry. He is an honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law.

The Justice David Wellington Chew Award, established in 2003, is given to a Section member for exemplary professionalism and professional accomplishment.  The award is named for Justice Chew, a Justice of the Eighth District Court of Appeals in El Paso since 1994.  Justice Chew is the first Asian American Court of Appeals Justice in Texas.  The award was presented to Hu during the Asian Pacific Interest Section Retreat in Austin in April.

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The State Bar of Texas is an administrative agency of the Supreme Court of Texas that provides education programs for the legal profession and the public, administers the minimum continuing legal education program for attorneys, and manages the attorney discipline system.
 
Formed in 1995, the Asian Pacific Interest Section (APIS) of the State Bar of Texas was created to advocate the common professional interest of lawyers of Asian-Pacific Islander heritage and those having an interest in the affairs of the Asian community and the law of countries on the Pacific Rim.