Wendy Duong Biography, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Family

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Wendy Duong is a Vietnamese-American businesswoman and philanthropist. She was born in 1958 in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States in 1975. She is the founder and CEO of the Wendy Duong Group, a business consulting firm. Duong is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a degree in business administration. She has also earned an MBA from the University of Southern California. Duong is a successful businesswoman and philanthropist. She has been recognized for her work in the business world, including being named one of the "Top 25 Women in Business" by the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2008. She has also been honored with the "Women of Achievement" award from the Los Angeles County Commission for Women. Duong is also an active philanthropist. She has donated to numerous charities, including the American Red Cross, the United Way, and the Vietnam Veterans of America. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Duong is 62 years old and her current net worth is estimated to be around $20 million. She has earned her wealth through her successful business ventures and philanthropic activities. She is married and has two children.

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Duong then left Texas to begin her law practice with the prestigious law firm of Wilmer Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) in Washington D.C., during which time she also represented Vietnamese refugees pro bono, with Wilmer’s full support.

Prior to her judgeship appointment in Houston, Texas, Duong was a special trial attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission Office of General Counsel in Washington D.C., and was recognized by the agency with outstanding-lawyer performance awards. Later, as an international lawyer and corporate in-house counsel, she handled the multi-million-dollar “Blue Dragon” oil exploration contract offshore Vietnam for Mobil, and was the first Vietnam-born lawyer to join the multinational corporation’s global Major Transaction Group. In private practice, she headed a team of lawyers examining Y2K liability exposure for all international assets of a Texas-based multinational energy company.

Known in the Vietnamese American community for her multi-faceted career, in her younger days she was a singer/dancer, attended the American Academy for Dramatic Arts, and auditioned for the debut of the musical Miss Saigon in New York City and Los Angeles. A self-taught L’Art Brut visual artist, Duong also wrote and published essays on law and culture, law and art, law and technology, human rights, gender studies, corporate law, and international economic law. Among Vietnamese American literary artists, she is the only one who writes and publishes bilingually (Vietnamese/English, both poetry and novels). She combined artistic pursuits with the full-time practice of law for 4 decades, working in major cities of the U.S., Europe, and Southeast Asia. While serving as a professor of corporate and international economic law at the University of Denver, she used her paintings and essays to advocate against human trafficking, and successfully promoted a diversity concert featuring classical, Broadway, and Vietnamese music at Hamilton Hall, Lamont School of Music, the first concert of its kind in Denver.

Wendy Nicole Duong, née Dương Như Nguyện (also writing creatively under pen name as Uyen Nicole Duong), is the first Vietnamese-American to hold judicial office in the United States. In 1992, she was appointed Associate Municipal Judge for the City of Houston and Magistrate for the State of Texas. She was then honored by the American Bar Association in New York City as among “Pioneer Women of Color in the Judiciary.” After serving a three-year term, she resigned to become an international lawyer for Mobil Corporation - Asia-Pacific. In 2001, she joined the faculty of University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, as a corporate law and international business transactions professor. A Fulbright Core Program Legal Scholar to Asia and Fulbright Legal Specialist to Russia, Duong also combined her legal career with novel writing, and was scouted by the publishing division of Amazon, Inc., which published her historical fiction trilogy featuring Vietnam’s decolonization, the fall of Saigon, immigrant life, and women’s themes. The third novel, Mimi and Her Mirror, won the Multicultural Fiction International Book Award in 2012. She currently practices law in Houston and writes full-time.

Born in Hoi An, Vietnam to parents who were language professors, Duong and her family escaped the Communist siege of Saigon on a U.S. cargo plane three days before the collapse of the Republic of (South) Vietnam. Then a 16-year-old about to graduate from high school, she in March 1975 had just won South Vietnam’s Presidential Honor Price in Literature, and was expected to be designated as National Valedictorian by the Ministry of Education for her perfect GPA and national ranking