Frank H. Wu is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, which was immediately reprinted in its hardcover edition, and co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment. From 2004 to 2008, he served as the ninth Dean of Wayne State University Law School in his hometown of Detroit. In the 2008-09 academic year, he will teach as a Visiting Professor at University of Maryland and George Washington University.

From 1995 to 2004, Mr. Wu was on the law faculty of Howard University. He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a visiting professor at University of Michigan, and a teaching fellow at Stanford University.

Mr. Wu served briefly by appointment of the D.C. Court of Appeals on its Board of Professional Responsibility, which adjudicates attorney discipline matters, as well as two terms on Board hearing committees. He was appointed by Mayor Anthony Williams as Chair of the D.C. Human Rights Commission for 2001-02. He joined the Board of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund in 2004.

Prior to his academic career, Mr. Wu held a clerkship with the late U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti in Cleveland and practiced law with the firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. He received a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. He has completed the Management Development Program of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Since his appointment to the Board in 2000, Mr. Wu has taken various sign language courses, including some at Gallaudet.

• Book: Yellow Race in America Beyond Black and White
• Interview: NOW, PBS program, 2002