Frank H. Wu

Bio

Frank H. Wu is president of Queens College, City University of New York Queens College, City University of New York. He served as the William L. Prosser Distinguished Professor UC Law SF became a Distinguished Professor following service as Chancellor & Dean. He was a member of the faculty at Howard University, the nation’s leading historically black college/university (HBCU), for a decade; Dean of Wayne State University Law School in his hometown of Detroit; a visiting professor at Michigan; an adjunct professor at Columbia; and a Thomas C. Grey Teaching Fellow at Stanford. He taught at the Peking University School of Transnational Law in its inaugural year and again a decade later. In his leadership roles at UC Law SF and Wayne, as well as on faculty at Howard, he was the first Asian American to serve in such a capacity.

He is dedicated to civic engagement and volunteer service. He has served as both Chair and President of the Committee of 100. C100 is a non-profit membership organization which invites Chinese Americans who have achieved the highest levels of success to join, working on twin missions of promoting good relations between the US and China and the participation of Chinese Americans in all aspects of public life. Professor Wu was appointed by the federal Department of Education to its National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), and by the Defense Department to the Military Leadership Diversity Commission. From 2010 to 2019, he was a Trustee of Deep Springs College, a highly-selective full-scholarship school enrolling twenty-six on a student-run cattle ranch near Death Valley, where he previously taught for several short periods. From 2000 to 2010, he was a Trustee of Gallaudet University, the only university in the world dedicated to deaf and hard of hearing persons.

Professor Wu is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, and co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment. He currently has a column in the Daily Journal, the California legal newspaper; he blogged regularly for six years at HuffPo; and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press.

Prior to his academic career, he held a clerkship with the late U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti in Cleveland and practiced law with the firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco – while there, he devoted a quarter of his time to pro bono work on behalf of indigent clients. He received a B.A. from Johns Hopkins and a J.D. with honors from Michigan. He completed the Management Development Program of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Education

Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Certificate, Management Development 2006
University of Michigan Law School
J.D., Law 1991
The Johns Hopkins University
B.A., Undergraduate Studies 1988

Accomplishments

Keith Aoki Award
Awarded by the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty. 2013
Honoree
Awarded by the California Asian Pacific Islander American Legislative Caucus for Heritage Month. 2013
Most Influential Dean in Legal Education
Awarded by National Jurist. 2012
Top 100 Lawyers in California
Awarded by the Daily Journal. 2012
Honoree, Leading Educator
Awarded by the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), East Bay Chapter. 2012
Honorary Marshall
San Francisco Chinatown Parade. 2011
Chang-lin Tien Award
Awarded by the Asia Pacific Foundation. 2008
Trailblazer
Awarded by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. 2008