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The attorney general of Hawaii (Hawaiian: Loio Kuhina) is the chief legal officer and chief law enforcement officer of Hawaii.In present-day statehood within the United States, the attorney general is appointed by the elected governor with the approval of the state senate and is responsible for a state department charged with advising the various other departments and agencies of state government.
First female ( Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Kingdom ): [9] Miriam Kekāuluohi in 1840. First female (Commissioner of Private Ways and Water Rights): Emma Kaili Metcalf Beckley Nakuina from 1892-1907 [10] First female (Hawaii Supreme Court): Carrick Hume Buck (1921) in 1935 [7] [11] First female (district magistrate): Edna Jenkins in 1937 [7]
Ohio State University ( JD) Russell A. Suzuki is an American attorney and was the 15th Attorney General of Hawaii. He was nominated on March 14, 2018 by Governor David Ige, [1] and was confirmed by the Hawaii Senate on March 29, 2018. [2] He served until January 2019, when Governor Ige appointed Clare E. Connors as his successor.
Region served. New Zealand. The New Zealand Bar Association ( NZBA) is a voluntary association of lawyers in New Zealand who practise at the independent bar as barristers and King's Counsel . The NZBA is governed by an elected council headed by a president. [1] James Farmer QC was president from 1991 to 1995 and again from 2004 to 2008. [2]
This list of the first women lawyers and judges in each state of the United States includes the years in which the women were admitted to practice law. Also included are women of other distinctions, such as the first in their states to graduate from law school.
United States Attorneys for the District of Hawaii (8 P) Pages in category "Lawyers from Hawaii" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total.
The Hawaii Solicitor General or Solicitor General of Hawaii is the top appellate lawyer for the State of Hawaii. It is an appointed position within the Hawaii Department of the Attorney General, with supervision over all of the office's major appellate cases and amicus briefs. The majority of the matters that the Solicitor General handles are ...
Sian Elias (1970): [93] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of New Zealand (1999) and one of the first female Queen's Counsel (alongside Lowell Goddard) in New Zealand; Georgina te Heuheu (1971): [94] First Māori female lawyer in New Zealand; Judith Potter: [95] First female to serve as the President of the New Zealand Law ...