Judge Dale Ho Wiki, Age, Wife, Parents, Family, Ethnicity, Married

Dale Ho Biography – Dale Ho Wiki

Dale Ho is a judge on the United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. He was first nominated to the Manhattan federal bench by then-President Joe Biden in September 2021. Biden resubmitted Ho’s nomination after midterm elections and the U.S. Senate confirmed him in June 2023 in a 50-49 party-line vote.

Before joining the bench, he was the Director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Voting Rights Project and supervised the ACLU’s voting rights litigation for about a decade. During this time, Dale argued two cases against President Donald Trump before the United States Supreme Court.

Prior to joining the ACLU, Dale was Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP; and a judicial law clerk, first to Judge Barbara S. Jones, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then to Judge Robert S. Smith, New York Court of Appeals.

Dale is the recipient of the 2020 Asian Law Alliance Legal Impact Award, and the 2019 National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) President’s Award. In 2018, he was named to the New York City Charter Revision Commission. In 2017, In 2017, Dale was named one of the best Asian American Lawyers under 40 by NAPABA.

Ho graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1999 and he earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 2005. In between, he started his career as a paralegal at the Manhattan district attorney’s office and was later a law clerk for a Manhattan federal judge.

Dale E. Ho Age

Judge Dale Ho was born in 1977 in San Jose, California, to Filipino immigrant parents.

Dale Ho Parents

Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho is the son of Filipino immigrants. Testifying to a House committee about voting issues in 2017, Ho said his grandfather, Raymundo Seña Estacion, fought for the U.S. in World War II and survived the Bataan Death March during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, according to the Brooklyn Eagle.

“He was always keenly aware, even as a kid, where his parents came from and, frankly, what they escaped from — a country where power rested not in the people but in the whims of one leader,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in supporting Ho’s nomination.

Dale Ho Wife

Dale Ho lives in Brooklyn, New York City. He has managed to keep his private life under wraps. It is unknown whether he is married or not.

Dale Ho Ethnicity

Judge Dale Ho is of Filipino ethnicity.

Political Party

Hon. Dale E. Ho was nominated to the federal bench by then-President Joe Biden of the Democratic Party. At Ho’s confirmation hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called him an “extreme partisan” and accused Biden of “trying to put judicial robes” on a “partisan and radical agenda.”

In his confirmation questionnaire, Ho said he volunteered to make telephone calls, knock on doors and work as a poll watcher for Democrat President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

Salary

Southern District of New York Judge Dale Ho earns an annual salary of $247,400.