– Advertisement – In 2022, a woman shook up the state of Nevada. Patricia Lee, 49, is the first Asian American woman in the state’s history to be appointed to the Supreme Court Justice. She was born to a South Korean mother and a U.S. military father. In her application to the Nevada Commission on Judicial Selection, Lee described herself as a “biracial woman who was born in a foreign country, was homeless, poor, and had an abusive childhood.”