Early Life
Dinh was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. He and his family emigrated in 1978 to the United States due to the communist reunification of Vietnam. They initially settled in Portland, Oregon, but moved to Fullerton, California, two years later.
Dinh graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1990 with an A.B. in Government and Economics. While at Harvard, he was a member of the Phoenix S.K. Club. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was a Class Marshal, an Olin Research Fellow in Law and Economics, and Bluebook editor of the Harvard Law Review, and received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude in 1993.
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