Holly J. Fujie was the 84th President of the State Bar of California -- the third woman and the first Asian American to hold that position.  She is a litigation Shareholder with the Los Angeles-based law firm of Buchalter Nemer, APC.  Ms. Fujie has named one of the Daily Journal’s California “Top 100 Lawyers Shaping the Future” for the past two years.  Since 1993, Ms. Fujie has served on, and she is now Chair of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Judicial Advisory Committee, which recommends nominees to the Senator and the White House for US District Court and US Attorney for the Central District of California.

Ms. Fujie received her A.B. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975 with great distinction and a double major in Political Science (high honors) and Economics (honors) and her J.D. at age 22 from UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law in 1978, where she was Articles Editor of the California Law Review.  She has been married to her Boalt Moot Court Advisor, attorney Lee Cotugno, since the day after she graduated in 1978, and they have two children, Sabrina (20), a junior majoring in Character Animation at California Institute of the Arts, and Thomas (13), an eighth grader.