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Isaac Pang Su Kiun JP (彭思军太平局绅) is a lawyer and a Justice of the Peace from Sandakan, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia. He was born on September 6th 1973 in Tawau. At the age of 7, his parents moved back to their hometown Sandakan and there he was educated at St. Mary's Primary school, Sandakan and thereafter at Montfort Junior School in Singapore. He completed his secondary education at St John's Collge in Lismore Australia before pursuing his law degree in England. He was Called to the English Bar as a Barrister by the Middle Temple in 1999 and thereafter admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor in Sabah in 2001. He practiced law in a reputable law firm in Kota Kinabalu and he eventually ventured into his own legal practice in 2004 with other lawyers in Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan.

Isaac was born to one of Sabah's most well known, influential and powerful families. His paternal grandfather Mark Pang Ka Miew (彭嘉茂) an immigrant from Kwang Tung province, China and who spoke English fluently. He taught at St Mary's school in the 1930s before venturing into logging business and made a fortune from it. Though he never joined politics, he was a close ally to leaders like Tun Mustapha and Tun Fuad Stephens who freed Sabah from the British. He was a philanthropist who contributed a chunk of his wealth to the development of sports especially soccer, cricket and boxing and Chinese education. Isaac's father Datuk Vincent Pang En Siong (拿督彭恩祥) and his uncles who took over the family business after the death of the senior Pang in the early 1970s also became very successful businessmen who expanded the business operations from timber to palm oil plantations, oil palm milling and properties. During the Berjaya government rule, Isaac's family was one of the biggest timber concessionaires through his father's very close friendship with former chief minister Datuk Harris Salleh. One of Isaac's uncles Datuk Peter Pang En Yin (拿督彭恩荣) is currently deputy chief minister of Sabah under the Liberal Democratic Party Sabah (LDP) ticket. Another uncle Datuk James Pang En Leong JP (拿督彭恩良太平局绅) is also a lawyer and a Justice of the Peace in Tawau. Isaac is also currently the Vice President of the LDP. He is also a past president of the Sandakan Lions Club Selingan, a member and legal advisor to several other non-governmental organisations and associations and sports associations in Sandakan including the Sandakan Hakka Association, the Sandakan United Chinese Communities Association Sabah, the Sandakan Taxi Association and the Sandakan Chinese Primary School Working Committee. He was awarded the Ahli Darjah Kinabalu (ADK) in 2007 and in 2009 was appointed a Justice of the Peace (JP) by His Excellency Tun Ahmadshah, the head of state of Sabah.

He is married to Tan Yuon Bick (daughter of former Assemblyman in Sandakan and former Sabah State Assembly Deputy Speaker Datuk Michael Tan Kun Boo) and have a son.