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In 1997 he became partner with the law firm of Marr Hipp Jones and Pepper specializing in employment litigation. In 1999 he returned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He became director of the Hawaii state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) in 2003. [6]
Miyamoto joined the Honolulu Police Department in 1971. He served in a number of different elite units including Criminal Intelligence, Vice-Narcotics, and SWAT. Miyamoto also joined the Hawaii National Guard around the same time as he joined HPD, and has served continuously for the past 30+ years. His final assignment with HPD was as a ...
Jul. 27—The state has named Michael S. Angelo executive director of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs' Division of Consumer Advocacy. Angelo assumed the position on July 17. As ...
Bernice Ann Keolamauloaonalani (Miyamoto) Akamine was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1949. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her heritage is kānaka maoli (Native Hawaiian) and Japanese American. [ 3 ] Akamine's grandmother was a kahuna lāʻau lapaʻau , a traditional Hawaiian healer, and her mother, Audrey Elliott, was a lauhala weaver.
In 1893, pro-American elements in Hawaii overthrew the monarchy and formed the Republic of Hawaii, which the U.S. annexed in 1898. [6] In 1921, in order to make amends for injustices associated with the overthrow and annexation, the US created the Hawaiian Homes Commissions Act which set aside 200,000 acres of land for the use of homelands for Native Hawaiians of 50% blood quantum or more.
The race is expected to be one of the most competitive in Hawaii, as Awa and Shafer vie for control of one of the state's few swing districts. Clayton Hee served in the Hawaii Senate from 2004 to ...
Hawaii is an island in the Pacific Ocean 2,000 mi (3,200 km) off the coast of the United States. The majority of environmental issues affecting Hawaii today are related to pressures from increasing human and animal population and urban expansion both directly on the islands as well as overseas.
The Government of Hawaii (Hawaiian: Aupuni o Hawaiʻi) is the governmental structure as established by the Constitution of Hawaii, the 50th state to have joined the United States. Executive branch [ edit ]