Former Attorney at Law, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP
Sandy Calhoun joined The Asia Foundation’s Board of Trustees in 1984. He was an attorney at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P., a leading global law firm. He was a partner of the firm from 1959-1992. Mr. Calhoun is chairman of the board of Give2Asia, a U.S. non-profit organization established by The Asia Foundation; a commissioner of the Asian Art Commission of San Francisco; a director of the 1990 Institute; a director of Wonders Info Corporation; chairman emeritus of the Japan Society of Northern California; chairman emeritus of the San Francisco-Osaka Sister City Committee; and a member of the San Francisco-Shanghai Sister City Committee. Mr. Calhoun has been a lecturer on international business transactions at the University of California School of Law in Berkeley, an adjunct professor of banking law at the University of San Francisco School of Law, and a visiting lecturer at the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade. He is licensed to practice law in California, New York, the District of Columbia, and in Japan, where he has been involved for many years.