Ernest Hiroshige ’67

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Ernest Hiroshige has given generously and unselfishly of his time and talents and has rendered exemplary service and contributions to our community. A superior court judge since 1982, Hiroshige is a founding officer and the second president of the Japanese American Bar Association of Los Angeles; he has served as president of the California Oriental Peace Officers Association, board of directors of the Hastings College of Law Alumni Association, president of the Asian Pacific American Friends of the Center Theater Group; and board member of Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics. As a lawyer, Hiroshige served as an officer of the Minority Bar Associations of Los Angeles, receiving an award of merit for his efforts to increase the ethnic minority lawyers employed by the City and County of Los Angeles.

At UCLA, Hiroshige has shown his special leadership talents and vision by helping to establish and serving as founding president of the Asian Pacific Alumni of UCLA which has proven to be an important link between UCLA and its thousands of Asian Pacific alumni.

In February of 1992, Judge Hiroshige served as chair of UCLA’s Opening Ceremony, which commemorated the 50th year since the World War II incarceration of 120,000 Japanese American citizens, including 175 UCLA students who had their educations forcibly interrupted. After this event, Hiroshige, who was born in one of the relocation camps, helped to launch the Japanese American Remembrance Fund, which hopes to raise $1 million in support of Japanese American studies at the University.

Through his leadership, vision and commitment, Judge Ernest Hiroshige has placed his special imprint on UCLA and the community at large to make them a better place for all.