Utah Judicial Giant Raymond Uno Has Died at 93

April 9, 2024 • Pacific Citizen

Incarcerated as a boy in Heart Mountain, he also served as JACL national president. Raymond Sonji Uno, an Ogden, Utah-born Nisei who spent part of his boyhood in an American concentration camp but whose accomplishments included becoming a civil rights advocate, serving as Utah’s first minority judge and in 1970, the youngest person ever elected to the office of national president of the Japanese American Citizens League, died March 8 at Salt Lake City’s Veteran’s Hospital. He was 93. Larry …