World Press Award Viet Thanh Nguyen – author of The Sympathizer, the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Vu Tran – author of Dragonfish Linh Dinh – poet, writer, translator, and photographer Do Nguyen Mai – poet and author of Ghosts Still Walking Thanh Bui – editor-in-chief, ASN magazine, founder of Shiba Rescue Society Kimberly Nguyễn – poet and author of ghosts in the stalks and a forthcoming collection in fall Soleil Ho – San Francisco Chronicle’s Restaurant Critic, writer, podcaster, and chef Military Viet Xuan Luong – Major General, US Army Japan Lapthe Flora – Major General, Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa William H. Seely III – Major General, US Marine Corps; Director of Marine Corps Intelligence; American father/Vietnamese mother. Quang X. Pham – first Vietnamese American to earn naval aviator's wings in the US Marine Corps; author and politician TBD Politics and law Federal Joseph Cao – first Vietnamese-American Congressman, represented Louisiana's 2nd congressional district from 2009 until 2011 (Republican) Viet D. Dinh – former United States Assistant Attorney General; drafted the USA Patriot Act John Quoc Duong – President George W. Bush's appointee as executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (Republican) Stephanie Murphy – Vietnamese-American Congresswoman representing Florida's 7th congressional district from 2017 until present (Democratic) Jacqueline Nguyen – U.S. circuit judge; first Vietnamese-American federal judge; first Asian-American woman to sit on the federal appellate court Mina Nguyen – Deputy Assistant Secretary for Business Affairs and Public Liaison at the US Treasury Department J. Peter Pham, United States Special Envoy for the Sahel Region of Africa, first Vietnamese American with the rank of ambassador. Dat Tran — Acting United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs California state legislators Tyler Diep – California State Assemblyman (Republican) Janet Nguyen – California State Senator (Republican) Tri Ta – California State Assemblyman (Republican) Van Tran – first Vietnamese American elected to any state legislature; California State Assemblyman (Republican) Other state legislators Bee Nguyen – Georgia state representative (Democratic) Joe Nguyen – Washington State Senator (Democratic) Tram Nguyen – Massachusetts State Representative (Democratic) Dean Tran – first Vietnamese-American elected to the Massachusetts Legislature (Republican) Kathy Tran – Virginia State Delegate My-Linh Thai – Washington State Representative (Democratic) Hubert Vo – Texas state representative (Democratic) Local government Andrew Do – Orange County, California Board of Supervisors (Republican) Tony Lam – first Vietnamese-American im any elected