Anh Joseph Cao

Anh “Joseph” Cao is a successful lawyer, an accomplished civic leader and a devoted family man. Joseph was born in 1967 in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), where he spent his early childhood during the most turbulent years of the Vietnam War. He still remembers the frightening bomb blasts near his elementary school. When Joseph was just eight years old, he escaped South Vietnam with two of his sisters to America. Joseph left behind his father, a South Vietnamese Army officer who was taken prisoner by the Communists, and his mother. He would not see his parents again for sixteen years.

In 2008, Joseph Cao ran a successful campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives and on January 6, 2009 he was sworn in as the first Vietnamese-American ever to be elected as a congressman. During his term as a U.S. Representative, Congressman Cao served on three House committees: Transportation & Infrastructure; Homeland Security; and Oversight and Government Reform.

In 2010 Joseph returned to the practice of law following a very productive term as a congressman. Joseph has extensive experience in immigration law, personal injury litigation, maritime litigation and business litigation.