Profile: Frank Wu
In 2004, Frank H. Wu became the ninth Dean of Wayne State University Law School in his hometown of Detroit. From 1995-2004 he served on the law faculty of Howard University, including two years as Clinic Director.
Mr. Wu is the author of Yellow: Race in American Beyond Black and White, and co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment.
Mr. Wu taught at Deep Springs College, a highly-selective full-scholarship, all-male school set on a student-run cattle ranch near Death Valley. He was appointed by the D.C. Court of Appeals to its Board of Professional Responsibility, which adjudicates attorney discipline matters. He was also appointed by Mayor Anthony Williams as Chair of the Washington, D.C. Human Rights Commission for 2001-2002, and was named by Black Issues in Higher Education [now called Diverse Issues in Higher Education] as one of the nation's top twenty scholars.
After obtaining a Bachelors Degree from Johns Hopkins University, Wu earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan. He then held a clerkship with the late U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti in Cleveland, later joining the San Francisco law firm of Morrison & Foerster.
Since his appointment to the Board in 2000, Mr. Wu has taken various sign language courses including some at Gallaudet.
