FIRST - Chinese-American Female Judge in Illinois
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This is a statue of Laura Cha-Yu Liu, a prominent Chinese-American in Chicago with several firsts to her name.
Waymark Code: WM13F88
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 11/28/2020
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This sculpture of Laura Cha-Yu Liu is in Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chicago. The bronze sculpture is by Erik Blome and was made in 2017. A small plaque near the sculpture reads as follows:
Laura Cha-Yu Liu
Appellate Court Justice
First Asian-American Appellate Court Justice in Illinois
First Chinese-American Female Judge in Illinois
First Chinese-American Elected to Public Office in Chicago
Cast Bronze
Erik Blome, Sculptor 2017
Judge Liu was born to immigrant parents and led a remarkable life before succumbing to breast cancer at only 49 years of age.
"In December 2010, Liu was appointed Cook County Circuit Court judge, and she won election outright to the position in 2012. Liu worked in the mortgage foreclosure section of the chancery division, dealing with the wave of foreclosure cases that materialized in the wake of the housing crisis. In February 2014, the state Supreme Court appointed Liu to the Illinois Appellate Court's 1st District. Over the next two-plus years, Liu authored more than 150 opinions, including a case that decided the rights of biological parents fighting over the custody of frozen embryos created via in vitro fertilization." (
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