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Peggy Kuo (郭佩宇)

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Peggy Kuo (郭佩宇)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Peggy Kuo
  • Chinese: 郭佩宇
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Tainan, Taiwan
  • Core roles: lawyer, judge
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. First Taiwan Born U.S. Judge as the Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York

Career Notes

(absorbed from the page’s own TAH tables — no external sourcing)

Peggy Kuo’s career moved through federal prosecution, international criminal law, and administrative adjudication before the bench:

  • Assistant District Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia (1989–1993)
  • Acting Deputy Chief / Trial Attorney, Criminal Section, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (1994–1998)
  • Prosecutor, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal, The Hague (1998–2002)
  • Counsel, WilmerHale, LLP (2002–2005)
  • Chief Hearing Officer, New York Stock Exchange (2005–2011)
  • Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel, New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (2011–2015)
  • U.S. Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York (2015–) — the first Taiwan-born U.S. judge

Community leadership: former President, Federal Bar Council American Inn of Court; former Vice-Chair, Manhattan Legal Services.

Education

  • Yale Univ. — 1985 — B.S., Summa Cum Laude
  • Harvard Law School — 1988 — J.D., Cum Laude

Employment

  • U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia — Assistant District Attorney — (1989-1993) — Criminal Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division — Acting Deputy Chief/Trial Attorney — (1994-1998) — United Nations International Criminal Tribunal Court in Hague — Prosecutor — (1998-2002) — WilmerHale, LLP — Counsel — (2002-2005) — New York Stock Exchange — Chief Hearing Officer — (2005-2011) — New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings — Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel — (2011-2015) — Eastern District of New York — U.S. Magistrate Judge — (2015-) — Community — Federal Bar Council American Inn of Court — Former President — Manhattan Legal Services — Former Vice-Chair

Family

  • Father: 郭鐘概
  • Mother: 蔡玉枝

Vault Holdings

  • 2026-09-10 cross-check: the four cited TAH records are all held in the vault as bibliographic works — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ota-226|TAH #226 Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo, 2019/01]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ff357|TAH #357 First Magistrate Judge, 2015/10]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1992-peggy-kuo|TAH #1992 Who’s Who, 2018/01]] and 06.

Sources

Vault re-check (deepen pass 2026-09-14)

  • Re-confirmed: all four cited TAH records (#226 ota-226, #357 ff357, #1992 whos-who-1992-peggy-kuo, peggy-kuo) exist in the vault; the Career Notes timeline is fully absorbed from them, no new biography added.
  • 語料庫新增關聯：她本人的生平自述式專文亦已入庫 —— 01，value band B）。此為語料庫中獨立於 TAH Who’s Who 表格之外的生平記載，後續深化以該篇為首要素材。

Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice 09142101-7, 2026-09-14)

  • SKIP-with-reason: corpus grep (郭佩宇 / Peggy Kuo across works + articles) returns only her own five TAH records (#226, #357, #1992, peggy-kuo, mystories620) and the works index — all bibliographic records with no body text, all already wikilinked above. No memoir/community mentions elsewhere in the corpus; no new absorbable facts, no conflicts to HOLD.

Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice 09150316-3, 2026-09-15)

  • SKIP-with-reason: grep re-run (郭佩宇 / Peggy Kuo across works + articles) — hits unchanged: only her own five TAH records + index rows, all already wikilinked above. No community mentions; nothing absorbable, no conflicts to HOLD.

Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice 10090500-31, 2026-10-10)

  • SKIP-with-reason: full 5-dir grep (郭佩宇 / Peggy Kuo / 郭鐘概 / 蔡玉枝 across works, articles, sources, events, topics) hits unchanged — only her own bibliographic TAH records (#226, #357, #1992, peggy-kuo, mystories620) plus index/hub rows, all already wikilinked above. mystories620 confirmed bibliographic-record-only (1.4 KB, full text stays in vault). No memoir/community mentions; nothing absorbable, no conflicts to HOLD.

Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice 10101322-14, 2026-10-11)

  • SKIP-with-reason: 5-dir grep re-run (郭佩宇 / Peggy Kuo / 郭鐘概 / 蔡玉枝, plus surname-only 郭佩 / Peggy sweep) — hits unchanged: only her own five TAH bibliographic records (#226 ota-226, #357 ff357, #1992, peggy-kuo, mystories620) plus works/index and the source hub, all already wikilinked above. mystories620 re-confirmed as a 1.4 KB bibliographic stub. Surname sweep surfaces only other Peggy-named people (Peggy Huang/Liao/Chen/Cooley — different people). No memoir/community mentions; nothing absorbable, no conflicts to HOLD.

Corpus re-check (deepen-x slice 10120400-24, 2026-10-12)

  • SKIP-with-reason (verified-saturated): 5-dir grep re-run (郭佩宇 / Peggy Kuo / 郭鐘概 / 蔡玉枝 across works, articles, sources, events, topics) — hits unchanged: her own five TAH bibliographic records (ota-226, peggy-kuo, whos-who-1992-peggy-kuo, mystories620, ff357) plus works/index, all already wikilinked above. No memoir/community mentions; nothing absorbable, no conflicts to HOLD.

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