CARLA WONG MCMILLIAN
JUDGE CARLA WONG MCMILLIAN serves as the state court judge of Fayette County, Georgia. A graduate of Duke University and the University of Georgia School of Law, Judge McMillian was a partner with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP and a law clerk for the Honorable William C. O’Kelley of the United
States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2010, she was one of the recipients of the Georgia Most
Powerful and Influential Women Award from the National Diversity Council. Judge McMillian was also selected as a Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star for 2007 and 2010. Judge McMillian is on the board of directors of
GAPABA. She is the first elected APA woman judge in the State of Georgia.
SANKOORIKAL TEENA-ANN
TEENA-ANN V. SANKOORIKAL is a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. She has a broad litigation practice, with particular experience in intel- lectual property matters, as well as antitrust law, securities and the Alien Tort Statute. Her recent representa- tions include victories for IBM, Qualcomm, Warner Brothers Records
and choreographer Mary Anthony in litigation concerning antitrust, patents, copyrights and trade secrets. Sankoorikal has lectured and written about complex litigation, intellectual property and ethics for the PLI. In addition to mentoring associates, she frequently speaks on leadership and law panels for various APA bar and law school organizations. Sankoorikal graduated cum laude from Yale University with majors in chemistry and sociology and received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was on the Law Review.
JEANNIE SUK
JEANNIE SUK is professor of Law at Harvard Law School where she teaches criminal law and family law. She is the
first tenured Asian American woman in the school’s history. She served as a law clerk to Judge Harry Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and to Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court. Her book, At Home in the Law, won the Law and Society Association’s top prize for most out- standing book published that year. Her influential writing has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship to support work on her next book, Te Trauma Society, to be published by Scribner.
VARGHESE VINOO
VINOO VARGHESE is the principal at Varghese & Associates, P.C., a criminal and asset forfeiture defense firm founded in
2006. Varghese has tried almost 30 criminal cases to verdict and written over a dozen appeals including one of three amicus briefs filed in the United States v. Rajaratnam, the larg- est insider trading case in American history. Te firm’s cases have been featured in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. In 2000, Varghese began his
career as a prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. In 2005, he was named senior assistant district attorney and was appointed to run a unit that prosecuted attempted murders of NYPD officers. Varghese graduated from Brooklyn
Law School in 2000 and from New York University in 1996.
CALVIN WOO
CALVIN K. WOO is Of Counsel at McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, where he practices finan- cial/commer-
cial litigation and white collar criminal defense. He has extensive trial and appellate experience representing busi- nesses and individuals in a wide range of high stakes, complex commercial and civil actions. He also defends insti- tutional and individual clients in the defense of government investigations and prosecutions. Prior to entering private practice, Woo served as an assis- tant district attorney in Investigations Division of the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office. Woo is a past presi- dent of the Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association and is an active member of its board of directors. Woo is a graduate of the University of Rochester and the George Washington University Law School. D&B
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