State of evolution: Inside the DFEH
While a love of policy and a balanced legal background help make any good labor and employment lawyer better, DFEH Director Phyllis W. Cheng's perseverance and dedication to justice for all have much deeper roots than that.
April 22, 2014 at 08:00 PM
21 minute read
While a love of policy and a balanced legal background help make any good labor and employment lawyer better, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) Director Phyllis W. Cheng's perseverance and dedication to justice for all have much deeper roots than that.
By her own account, Cheng was born on a midwife's kitchen table in Hong Kong during a typhoon that just so happened to take place on the Fourth of July. “You can say I was meant to be a Yankee Doodle Dandy,” Cheng quips.
Following the auspicious timing of her entry into the world, 10 years later, Cheng left Hong Kong with her mother, who had fled from Communist rule in China. The two immigrated to the United States during the Kennedy administration.
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