South Asian Bar Association of Northern California Congratulates NASABA Awardees!
Monday, July 9, 2012 by AsianWeek Staff of AsianWeek
San Francisco, CA – The South Asian Bar Association of Northern California (SABA-NC) congratulates its members who won prestigious awards recently at the North American South Asian Bar Association’s (NASABA) convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Neel Chatterjee, Harmeet Dhillon and Amar Shergill were each awarded NASABA’s Cornerstone Award, which is given to individuals who best exemplify through their legal work the objectives of NASABA and local SABA chapters, including promotion of the professional development of the South Asian legal community, education advocacy, mentorship, and protection of the civil liberties of the South Asian community.
A devout Sikh, a gay Republican leader and an activist "millennial" conservative hardly represent the staid image of "your father's Republican Party" - but that's exactly the point for San Francisco Republicans who make up a diverse slate of candidates hoping to reboot the GOP in a famously liberal bastion.
"Our goal is to give voters a choice" in San Francisco, where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a more than 5 to 1, said San Francisco attorney Harmeet Dhillon, the activist chairwoman of the city's Republican Party and a leader in the South Asian community.
Attorney Harmeet Dhillon, chair of the San Francisco, Calif., Republican Party, filed papers Mar. 9 to run for a California state Senate seat.
Dhillon will be running in the newly-redistricted Senate District 11, which covers all of San Francisco and some of neighboring Daly City. She will be running against state Sen. Mark Leno, a Democrat, who currently represents a portion of the new district.