48 Notable alumni of
Hamline University
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Hamline University is 1592nd in the world, 565th in North America, and 532nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 notable alumni from Hamline University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Coleen Gray
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Coleen Gray was an American actress. She was best known for her roles in the films Nightmare Alley (1947), Red River (1948), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).
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John Bessler
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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John David Bessler is an American attorney and academic. He is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is the husband of U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar.
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Francine York
- Occupations
- television actormodelfilm actoractor
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Francine York was an American actress and model. She also used the name Francine Yerick.
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Yi Gang
- Occupations
- authorinternational forum participanteconomist
- Biography
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Yi Gang is a Chinese economist and banker who served as the governor of the People's Bank of China from 2018 to 2023, vice governor of the People's Bank of China from 2007 to 2018, director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange from 2009 to 2015, and assistant governor of the People's Bank of China from 2004 to 2007.
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Andrea Jenkins
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- politicianperformance artistcuratorpoetactivist
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Andrea Jenkins is an American politician, writer, performance artist, poet, and transgender activist. She is known for being the first Black openly transgender woman elected to public office in the United States, since January 2018 on the Minneapolis City Council and as the council's president from January 2022 to January 2024.
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Vern Mikkelsen
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Arild Verner Agerskov Mikkelsen was an American professional basketball player. One of the National Basketball Association's first power forwards in the 1950s, he was known for his tenacious defense. Also an ironman, he played in 699 out of a possible 704 during his career. He was a six-time All-Star and four-time Second Team All-Pro, and was inducted into the NAIA Basketball Hall of Fame and the sport's Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995.
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Robert M. Hanson
- Occupations
- military officeraircraft pilot
- Biography
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Robert Murray Hanson was a United States Marine Corps flying ace who shot down 25 Japanese planes from the South Pacific skies. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor. One of five children, he is the elder brother of Edith Hanson and Earl Dorchester Hanson.
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Klaas de Vries
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- lawyerjuristpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Klaas George de Vries is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and jurist.
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Michael Gableman
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Michael J. Gableman is an American lawyer and former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. A Republican, he has been described as a hard-line conservative.
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Dale Ahlquist
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Dale Ahlquist is an American author and advocate of the thought of G. K. Chesterton. Ahlquist is the president and co-founder of the American Chesterton Society and the publisher of its magazine, Gilbert. He is also the co-founder of Chesterton Academy, a Catholic high school in Minneapolis.
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Van Tran
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Van Thai Tran is a Vietnamese American attorney and politician in California, formerly serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing portions of Orange County. Tran and Texas State Representative Hubert Vo were the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected officials in U.S. history until Joseph Cao was elected to the United States House of Representatives in December 2008. Tran took office one month before Vo did, making him the first Vietnamese American to serve in a state legislature. He served in the Assembly as Assistant Republican Leader.
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Anna Arnold Hedgeman
- Years
- 1899-1990 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Anna Arnold Hedgeman was an African-American civil rights leader, politician, educator, and writer. Under President Harry Truman, Hedgeman served as executive director of the National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, having worked on his presidential campaign. She was also appointed to the cabinet of New York City mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr., becoming the first African-American woman to hold a cabinet post in New York. Hedgeman was a major advocate for both minorities and the poor in New York City. She also served as a consultant for many companies and entities on racial issues, and late in her life founded Hedgeman Consultant Services. She was among the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington. Throughout her many years involved in the civil rights movement, she befriended Dorothy Height.
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Willis Winter Bradley
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- politician
- Biography
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Willis Winter Bradley Jr. was a Naval officer, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, Naval Governor of Guam, and a U.S. Representative from California.
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Max Winter
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Max Winter was a Minneapolis businessman and sport executive who helped found the Minnesota Vikings.
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Rozanne L. Ridgway
- Occupations
- businesspersondiplomat
- Biography
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Rozanne Lejeanne Ridgway is an American diplomat who served 32 years with the U.S. State Department, holding several posts, including ambassador to Finland and to East Germany, and finished her career as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs.
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Rich Stanek
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard W. "Rich" Stanek is an American politician and former law enforcement officer who served as the sheriff of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office from 2007 to 2019.
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Chuck Wiger
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles W. "Chuck" Wiger Sr. is a Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represents District 43, which includes parts of Ramsey and Washington counties in the northeastern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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Patricia Anderson
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- politician
- Biography
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Patricia "Patti" Anderson is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2023. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, Anderson represents District 33A in the northeastern Twin Cities metropolitan area, which includes the cities of Forest Lake, Hugo, and Mahtomedi and parts of Washington County.
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Gordon Hintz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gordon N. Hintz is an American public servant and Democratic politician from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He was the minority leader in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 2017 through 2021. He was a member of the Assembly for eight terms, representing the 54th Assembly district from 2007 through 2022.
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Bill Frenzel
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- politician
- Biography
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William Eldridge Frenzel was an American politician and businessman who represented Minnesota's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1991. A member of the Republican Party, Frenzel previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971.
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Anne McKeig
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Anne K. McKeig is an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. She is its first Native American justice and the first Native American Woman to serve on any State Supreme Court. She was a judge of the Minnesota Fourth District Court in Hennepin County from 2008 to 2016.
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Carly Melin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carly Melin is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represented District 6A, which included portions of the Iron Range in Itasca and St. Louis counties in northeastern Minnesota. In February 2018, Melin became executive director of the Minnesota State Building and Construction Trades Council, a labor group representing 70,000 union members. On January 31, 2019, Attorney General Keith Ellison appointed Melin as government affairs director for his office.
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Edwin W. Rawlings
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- military officer
- Biography
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General Edwin William Rawlings, USAF, (September 11, 1904 – December 8, 1997) was a leading figure in the administrative development of the United States Air Force (USAF).
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Trung Le Nguyen
- Enrolled in Hamline University
- In 2012 graduated with studio art
- Occupations
- comics artistwritercaricaturistpenciller
- Biography
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Trung Le Nguyen, also known as Trungles, is a Vietnamese-American cartoonist. He is best known as the author of the graphic novel The Magic Fish, published by Random House Graphic in 2020.
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Duane Benson
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- player of American footballpolitician
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Dean Duane Benson was an American football linebacker and politician.
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Sharon Lubinski
- Biography
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Sharon Lubinski is a former United States Marshal for the District of Minnesota. She was the first openly lesbian United States Marshal.
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John Lesch
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Lesch is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he last represented 66B, which included portions of Saint Paul in Ramsey County, in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is a prosecuting attorney for Saint Paul.
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Donovan W. Frank
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Donovan W. Frank is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
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Robert Morris Page
- Enrolled in Hamline University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Robert Morris Page was an American physicist who was a leading figure in the development of radar technology. Later, Page served as the director of research for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
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Deane Montgomery
- Enrolled in Hamline University
- Studied in 1929
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Deane Montgomery was an American mathematician specializing in topology who was one of the contributors to the final resolution of Hilbert's fifth problem in the 1950s. He served as president of the American Mathematical Society from 1961 to 1962.
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Tony Lourey
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tony Lourey is an American politician. He is a former Minnesota commissioner of human services and former Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) member of the Minnesota Senate, representing District 11.
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Rudy Takala
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Rudy Takala is a conservative writer and Republican politician.
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Martin Maginnis
- Occupations
- minerjournalistpoliticianeditorpublisher
- Biography
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Martin Maginnis was a nineteenth-century politician, soldier, publisher, editor and miner from Minnesota and the Montana Territory.
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Tim Purdon
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Timothy Q. Purdon is a lawyer who served as the 18th United States Attorney for the District of North Dakota from 2010 to 2015. He is now a partner at Robins Kaplan LLP.
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Tony Sertich
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anthony 'Tony' Sertich is a Minnesota politician and a former commissioner of the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board. A Democrat, he served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2001 to 2011, representing District 5B, which includes portions of the Iron Range in St. Louis County, which is in the northeastern part of the state. He also served as House Majority Leader from 2007 to 2011.
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Mary Jo McGuire
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Mary Jo McGuire is an American politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 66, which included portions of Ramsey County in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. She previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1989 to 2003, representing District 54A. Prior to the 1992 legislative redistricting, the area was known as District 63A. She currently serves on the Ramsey County Board and was reelected in 2020.
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Johnny Norlander
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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John Arthur Norlander was an American professional basketball player born in Virginia, Minnesota.
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Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield
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- politicianlawyer
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Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, father of Robert Bruce Chiperfield.
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Andy Dawkins
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Andrew J. Dawkins is an American politician and attorney from Minnesota. Dawkins is a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from Saint Paul. Running as a Democrat, Dawkins was first elected in 1986 to represent District 65A, and was reelected every two years until opting not to seek reelection in 2002. In 1993, he ran an unsuccessful campaign for mayor of Saint Paul against Norm Coleman. He married Ellen Anderson, a Minnesota state senator from St. Paul, in 1995; they divorced in 2018. He was the Green Party of Minnesota nominee for Minnesota Attorney General in the 2014 election, earning 1.5% of the vote and restoring the party's minor-party status.
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Hal Haskins
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Harold F. "Sleepy Hal" Haskins was an American professional basketball player and coach. He was an All-American player for the Hamline Pipers who led the team to the 1949 NAIA National Championship. Haskins played professionally in the upstart National Professional Basketball League. He coached high school basketball in his native Minnesota for five years.
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Adolphus Peter Nelson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adolphus Peter Nelson was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
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Eli L. Huggins
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- 1842-1929 (aged 87)
- Biography
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Eli Lundy Huggins was an American Brigadier General and author who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Indian Wars. He was also the commander of the 8th Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Spanish–American War.
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Julia Bullard Nelson
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- suffragist
- Biography
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Julia Bullard Nelson was an American temperance and women's rights activist from Red Wing, Minnesota. Following the death of her husband and their only child, she bravely headed south to Texas, in 1869, to teach former slaves in U.S. government-backed Freedmen's Bureau schools. Nelson spent the summers of the 1870s and 1880s in Minnesota, where she emerged as a state and national leader in the movement for women's suffrage and the temperance campaign against alcohol use.
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Foil A. Miller
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacherphilatelist
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Foil Allan Miller was an American chemist and philatelist best known for his work in infrared and Raman spectroscopy. He was head of the spectroscopy division of the Mellon Institute and later professor and head of the spectroscopy laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. Among other publications, he co-authored the books Course Notes on the Interpretation of Infrared and Raman Spectra (2004) and A Philatelic Ramble Through Chemistry (1998).
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David Oppegaard
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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David Oppegaard is an American novelist.
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Marty Norton
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Martin William Norton was a player in the National Football League. He first played for the Minneapolis Marines during the 1922 NFL season. After a season away from the NFL, he re-joined the Marines for the 1924 NFL season. The next season, he played with the Green Bay Packers. He was also a member of the team for the next three seasons, but did not see any playing time during the season.
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James Newbury FitzGerald
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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James Newbury FitzGerald was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1888.
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John Choi
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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John J. Choi is an American attorney and politician who has served as the county attorney of Ramsey County, Minnesota since 2011. He served as Saint Paul City Attorney from 2006 to 2010. Choi is a first-generation Korean-American immigrant and the first Korean American to serve as a county attorney in the United States. He has gained attention for his office's successful prosecutions of human trafficking and for his support of criminal justice reform efforts.
