U of M regent, local Hmong leader dies at age 52
Kao Ly Ilean Her died Thursday.
Author: Kao Ly Ilean Her, a Hmong-American leader and University of Minnesota Board regent, has died at age 52 from complications of COVID-19.
Her, an active civic leader who devoted her life to improving the lives of Hmong women, died Thursday with a few of her family members by her side, and the rest of her family present via video, a Go Fund Me page dedicated to creating a memorial fund in her honor says.
She was born in Laos and fled to the United States in 1976. Her graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School and was the first Hmong woman admitted to the Minnesota Bar Association, the Pioneer Press says.