{"id":682,"date":"2021-09-06T08:46:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T18:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/\/?page_id=682"},"modified":"2021-12-17T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T01:17:16","slug":"speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/national-conference\/speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery.kb-gallery-wrap-id-_7bce6e-ed{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery.kb-gallery-wrap-id-_7bce6e-ed{overflow:hidden;}.kb-gallery-type-carousel.kb-gallery-id-_7bce6e-ed .kt-blocks-carousel .kt-blocks-carousel-init{margin:0 -5px;}.kb-gallery-type-carousel.kb-gallery-id-_7bce6e-ed .kt-blocks-carousel .kt-blocks-carousel-init .kb-slide-item{padding:4px 5px;}.kb-gallery-type-carousel.kb-gallery-id-_7bce6e-ed .kt-blocks-carousel .kt-blocks-carousel-init 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https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Chemerinsky-IMG_2256-1-768x726.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Chemerinsky-IMG_2256-1-127x120.jpg 127w, https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Chemerinsky-IMG_2256-1-211x200.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 997px) 100vw, 997px\" \/><\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Erwin Chemerinsky<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kb-slide-item kb-gallery-carousel-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption kb-has-image-ratio-square\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-square\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Marla-Greenstein-IMG_2341-1-768x806.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Marla-Greenstein-IMG_2341-1-114x120.jpg 114w, https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Marla-Greenstein-IMG_2341-1-190x200.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Marla N. Greenstein<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kb-slide-item kb-gallery-carousel-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption kb-has-image-ratio-square\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-square\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Avi-Soifer-IMG_2243-1-1024x871.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"871\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Avi-Soifer-IMG_2243-1.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Avi-Soifer-IMG_2243-1.jpg\" data-id=\"880\" data-link=\"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/\/national-conference\/speakers\/ajs-conference-avi-soifer-img_2243-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-880 skip-lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Avi-Soifer-IMG_2243-1-1024x871.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Avi-Soifer-IMG_2243-1-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Avi-Soifer-IMG_2243-1-768x653.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Avi-Soifer-IMG_2243-1-141x120.jpg 141w, https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Avi-Soifer-IMG_2243-1-235x200.jpg 235w, https:\/\/americanjudicaturesociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AJS-conference-Avi-Soifer-IMG_2243-1.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Aviam Soifer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>James J.Alfini, Dean and Professor Emeritus, SouthTexas College of Law Houston<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>James J. Alfini is Dean and Professor Emeritus at South Texas College of Law Houston (STCL). Prior to his arrival at STCL, Dean Alfini was Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University, where he taught constitutional law, mediation theory and practice, legal ethics, and related courses. He served as dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Law for six years and previously was a member of the law faculty at Florida State University. Dean Alfini is widely published in the field of judicial ethics and is co-author of Judicial Conduct and Ethics, published by Lexis and in its 6th Edition (2020). He served on the American Bar Association Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct. The Commission\u2019s work resulted in the 2007 Model Code of Judicial Conduct, adopted by the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association. Dean Alfini received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his J.D. degree from Northwestern University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Alicia Bannon, Managing Director, Brennan Center Democracy Program<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>As Managing Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, Alicia Bannon leads the Center\u2019s projects on fair courts and redistricting, directing research, advocacy, and litigation to promote a fair and impartial judicial system. The Brennan Center at NYU School of Law is a nonpartisan law and policy institute which seeks to improve the American democratic and judicial system. An experienced constitutional lawyer and an expert on court reform, judicial selection, and electoral redistricting, Ms. Bannon has authored numerous nationally recognized reports and pieces of legal scholarship published by the Center, including Rethinking Judicial Selection in State Courts (June 2016), and Choosing State Judges: A Plan for Reform (October 2018). Her work is regularly featured in national media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, MSNBC, and NPR. She has taught as an adjunct professor at the NYU School of Law and Seton Hall Law School. Ms. Bannon received her J.D. from Yale Law School and graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude with a degree in Social Studies. She clerked for the Hon. Sonia Sotomayor in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for the Hon. Kimba Wood in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Jan Boivin, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Hawai\u2018i Pacific University<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan Boivin is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Hawai\u2018i Pacific University (HPU) where she oversees legal affairs, board governance, and human resources. She also supports the University\u2019s innovative workforce education, HPU Next. Since joining HPU in 2009, Ms. Boivin has served in a range of capacities, including Title IX compliance, acting as the primary investigator for employee misconduct allegations, representing the University with federal and state agencies and courts, and overseeing performance evaluations for all University officers. Ms. Boivin received a bachelor\u2019s degree from Willamette University and a juris doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center. She formerly served as an attorney at Marr Jones &amp; Wang and as the president of the Hawai\u2018i State Bar Foundation. She is a board member of the American Judicature Society and the State Ombudsman Director for the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, Department of Defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Erwin Chemerinsky has been the Dean of the Berkeley Law School since 2017 and was previously the founding Dean at the University of California Irvine School of Law. He was the keynote speaker at the 2019 AJS Annual Meeting in Honolulu where he discussed the Judicial Role in Government. Dean Chemerinsky has authored 14 books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal court jurisdiction, and most recently, Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights (2021) and The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State (2020). He has also written over 200 law review articles, is a contributing writer for the Los Angeles Times, and writes regular columns for the Sacramento Bee, the ABA Journal, and the Daily Journal, while also arguing several appellate cases before the United States Supreme Court. Dean Chemerinsky earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in communications from Northwestern University and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Honorable Judith C. Chirlin (Ret.), Los Angeles Superior Court<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2009, after 24 years of service, Judge Judith Chirlin retired from the Los Angeles Superior Court where she has handled law and motion, civil trials, and mandatory settlement conferences. Prior to her appointment, she practiced business and employment litigation and represented airlines in a variety of business matters, including disputes with airports over landing rights. Judge Chirlin was also a law instructor at the University of Southern California for 18 years through the Judicial Administration Program. She received her B.A. from George Washington University, M.A. from Rutgers, and J.D. from the University of Southern California. Judge Chirlin has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Joan Dempsey Klein Outstanding Jurist Award by the California Women Lawyers, Distinguished Service Award by the National Associa- tion of Women Judges, Trial Judge of the Year Award by the Consumer Attorneys\u2019 Association of Los Angeles, Distinguished Service Award by the National Center of State Courts, and many other awards. A renowned speaker and educator, Judge Chirlin has traveled extensively, consulting on court reform, human rights and conflict resolution, and teaching programs for foreign judges, lawyers, police officers, educators, and other professionals in more than 20 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Charles Geyh, Indiana University Mauer School of Law<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously director of the AJS Center for Judicial Independence, Charles Geyh is a Distinguished Professor and the John F. Kimberling Professor of Law at the Mauer School of Law at Indiana University. His research centers on judicial conduct, independence and administration\u2014focusing on the operation of the courts in relation to the political branches of government\u2014and he has authored numerous books, including Who is to Judge: Judicial Elections, Judicial Appointments, and the Perennial Debate Over Judicial Selection in America (2019), Courting Peril: The Political Transformation of the American Judiciary (2016), What\u2019s Law Got To Do With It?: What Judges Do, Why They Do It, and What\u2019s At Stake (2011), and Judicial Conduct and Ethics (co-authored with James Alfini, Steven Lubet and Jeffrey Shaman) (2013), and articles, including The Twilight of Judicial Independence and The American Judicature Society and Judicial Independence: Reflections on the Century Mark (2013). Professor Geyh received his B.A. in political science and his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He previously clerked for the Hon. Thomas Clark in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, worked in private practice for the law firm of Covington &amp; Burling, and served as counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Honorable Lisa M. Ginoza, Chief Judge, Hawai\u2018i Intermediate Court of Appeals<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa M. Ginoza was sworn in as Chief Judge of the Hawai\u2018i Intermediate Court of Appeals on April 24, 2018. Prior to being appointed to her current position, she served as an Associate Judge of the Intermediate Court of Appeals. A graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai\u2018i, Judge Ginoza served as a law clerk to the Hon. Samuel P. King, Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai\u2018i. She then entered private practice with McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon where she became a partner and had an extensive civil litigation practice. In January 2005, she was appointed First Deputy Attorney General for the State of Hawai\u2018i, after which she was appointed to the Intermediate Court of Appeals in 2010. Judge Ginoza received her undergraduate degree from Oregon State University with highest distinction. She has served as an adjunct professor in Appellate Advocacy at the William S. Richardson School of Law and was a member of the Hawai\u2018i Supreme Court\u2019s Commission on Professionalism. Judge Ginoza is currently a board member of the American Judicature Society and also serves as chair of Hawaii\u2019s Commission to Promote and Advance Civic Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Honorable Steven C. Gonz\u00e1lez, Chief Justice, Washington Supreme Court<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Steven Charles Gonz\u00e1lez was sworn in as Washington Supreme Court\u2019s 58th Chief Justice on January 11, 2021, following a vote of his peers for a four-year term. He was appointed to the court in 2012, and subsequently won two contested races for six-year terms starting in 2013 and 2019. Prior to joining the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Gonz\u00e1lez served for ten years as a trial judge on the King County Superior Court hearing criminal, civil, juvenile, and family law cases. Chief Justice Gonz\u00e1lez graduated with honors from Pitzer College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian studies and received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. After a career in private practice, Chief Justice Gonz\u00e1lez served as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Seattle, where he prosecuted domestic violence cases including cases of elder and child abuse. He then served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington from 1997 to 2002. Chief Justice Gonz\u00e1lez is fluent in English, Japanese and Spanish, and knows some Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cynthia Gray, Director, Center for Judicial Ethics, National Center for State Courts<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Since October 1990, Cynthia Gray has been the director of the Center for Judicial Ethics, a national clearinghouse for information about judicial ethics and discipline that was previously housed at AJS and is now part of the National Center for State Courts. She summarizes recent cases and advisory opinions, answers requests for information about judicial conduct, writes a weekly blog (at www.ncscjudicialethicsblog.org), writes and edits the Judicial Conduct Reporter, and organizes the biennial National College on Judicial Conduct and Ethics. She has made numerous presentations at judicial education programs and written several articles and publications concerning judicial ethics topics. Having received her J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law, Ms. Gray clerked for the Hon. Hubert L. Will of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Illinois and then practiced as a litigation attorney in two private law firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Marla N. Greenstein, Executive Director, Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Marla N. Greenstein is the Executive Director of the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct, a position she has held since 1989. She also serves as Secretary of the Board of the Association of Judicial Disciplinary Counsel. She previously served as senior staff attorney for the Alaska Judicial Council and as senior staff attorney for the American Judicature Society in Chicago. Ms. Greenstein served as Chair of the Lawyers Conference of the American Bar Association (ABA)\u2019s Judicial Division from 1996-97, Co-Chair and Vice-Chair of the ABA\u2019s Judicial Division Ethics and Professionalism Committee, and a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the American Judicature Society. She is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and holds an undergraduate degree in American Government and Philosophy from Georgetown University. Ms. Greenstein serves on the Alaska Bar\u2019s Ethics Committee and Fair and Impartial Courts Committee. She is the Ethics Column Editor for the ABA\u2019s Judges Journal, authoring the quarterly column. She has lec- tured widely in the area of judicial ethics and has served as faculty for international judicial ethics seminars in Micronesia and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Honorable Goodwin H. Liu, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodwin H. Liu is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. Before joining the state\u2019s highest court, Justice Liu was Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. The son of Taiwanese immigrants, his areas of expertise include constitutional law, education law and policy, and diversity in the legal profession. He co-authored A Portrait of Asian Americans in the Law (2017), a report that examined whether Asian Americans are under- representedinleadershipranksofprivatelawfirms,government,andacademia. Hereceivedabachelor\u2019sdegreeinbiology from Stanford University and attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, earning a master\u2019s degree in philosophy and physiology. Returning to the United States, Justice Liu helped to launch the AmeriCorps national service program and worked as a senior program officer at the Corporation for National Service. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998 and clerked for Judge David Tatel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Justice Liu went on to work as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and later worked in the firm of O\u2019Melveny &amp; Myers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ivan M. Lui-Kwan, Director, Starn, O\u2019Toole Marcus &amp; Fisher<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivan M. Lui-Kwan was born and raised in Hilo, Hawai\u2018i and currently serves as the Vice-chair of the American Judicature So- ciety\u2019s Board of Directors. He has practiced law for 50 years, focusing on Hawai\u2018i\u2019s land use, administrative, and real estate law. He was presented with the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award by Pacific Edge Magazine and recognized as the 2015 Queen Emma Ball Honoree for his many contributions to the St. Andrew\u2019s Schools and the people of Hawai\u2018i. Mr. Lui-Kwan serves as the Ambassador to the United States for the Maori King Tuheitia and was knighted by King Tuheitia in November 2015. He received the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award from Saint Martin\u2019s University, where he studied Political Science and graduated with honors. The St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii recognized him with the St. Francis Assisi Spirit Award in 2019. He was also presented with the Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce \u2018O\u2019O Award. A Native Hawaiian, Mr. Lui-Kwan is a managing member of Hokukahu, LLC, the for-profit subsidiary of the Hokupili Foundation, the native Hawaiian non-profit organization, which serves approximately 60,000 residents of the Hawaiian Homelands communities in Hawai\u2018i. Hokupili\u2019s mission is to create economic opportunity and capacity building for Native Hawaiians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Honorable Sabrina Shizue McKenna, Associate Justice, Hawai\u2018i Supreme Court<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabrina S. McKenna was sworn in as Associate Justice of the Hawai\u2018i Supreme Court on March 3, 2011. She is a graduate of the University of Hawai\u2018i at M\u0101noa and a 1982 graduate of the University of Hawai\u2018i William S. Richardson School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. Justice McKenna was a civil litigator, corporate counsel, and law professor before becoming a Hawaii state trial court judge in 1993. As a trial court judge, she presided in District, Circuit, and Family Courts, and served as Senior Judge of the Family Court of the First Circuit. Justice McKenna attended the University of Hawai\u2018i at M\u0101noa, where she played on the Hawai\u2018i Rainbow Wahine women\u2019s basketball team. She was one of the first beneficiaries of Title IX. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Honorable M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the<br>Ninth Circuit<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge McKeown was nominated to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by President Bill Clinton and was confirmed by the United States Senate in 1998. Prior to her appointment to the bench, she engaged in private practice for more than two decades in Seattle and Washington, D.C., including as the first woman partner with Perkins Coie. She has been involved in various community and professional activities, including AJS. In 2019, the American Bar Association\u2019s Judicial Division and the Standing Committee on the American Judicial System presented her the prestigious John Marshall Award, which recognizes individuals who have made a positive impact on the American system of justice. She is the former president of the Federal Judges Association and former chair of the ABA Rule of Law Initiative Board, focusing on judicial reform, and increased transparency and accountability in the judiciary, both in the U.S. and nearly 50 other nations. Chief Justice McKeown has lectured and taught extensively on constitutional law, international law, human rights law, intellectual property, litigation, ethics, and judicial administration in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. She earned her B.A. from the University of Wyoming and her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Colin O. Miwa, Senior Counsel, Cades Schutte<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Colin Miwa has been a lawyer in private practice at the Hawai\u2018i law firm of Cades Schutte LLP since 1981, and still practices primarily in the Intellectual Property, Construction Law and Litigation, and Creditors\u2019 Rights Practice Groups. He has been an active participant in AJS including as a member of the AJS Board of Directors since 2009, co-chair of the AJS Standing Committee on Judicial Selection, Retention and Accountability, and co-chair of the Conference Steering Committee. He received his B.A. in Political Science with honors from Stanford University in 1978, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Honorable Susan Oki Mollway, United States District Judge, District of Hawai\u2018i<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Before joining the federal bench in June 1998, Judge Mollway was a partner in the Litigation Department at Cades Schutte Fleming &amp; Wright in Honolulu from 1981 until her judgeship. She served as Chief Judge from 2009 to 2015 and assumed senior status on November 6, 2015. Judge Mollway served on the Ninth Circuit Pacific Islands Committee and the Ninth Circuit Conference Executive Committee. She was chairperson of the Ninth Circuit Jury Instructions Committee until late 2016. She helped to oversee the $121 million renovation of the federal district court facilities in Honolulu and worked on creating a Re-Entry program in the United States District Court, District of Hawai\u2018i. Judge Mollway received her law degree from Harvard Law School, cum laude and was Editor in Chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (vol. 16). She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Hawai\u2018i at M\u0101noa in English literature. She received an LLM degree in Judicial Studies from Duke University Law School in 2020 and wrote The First Fifteen: How Asian American Women Became Federal Judges, Rutgers University Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Lawrence S. Okinaga, Partner, Carlsmith Ball<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawrence Okinaga serves as Chair of the American Judicature Society\u2019s Board of Directors. He is a partner in Carlsmith Ball\u2019s Honolulu office and concentrates his practice in financial institutions, real estate, trusts and administrative law. He received his J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.A. degree in economics from the University of Hawai\u2018i at M\u0101noa. Mr. Okinaga served on the national board of the American Judicature Society for ten years and as its national president for two years. He founded the Hawai\u2018i chapter of the American Judicature Society when the organization originally operated out of Chicago and continues to provide leadership, particularly since 2014 when the organization\u2019s programs were transitioned to Hawai\u2018i. In Hawai\u2018i, Mr. Okinaga served as a Member, Vice Chairman and Chairman of Hawai\u2018i\u2019s Judicial Selection Commission. He then served as a Member and then Chairman of the State of Hawai\u2018i Judicial Conduct Commission. From 2005 to 2013, he served as Chair of the Hawai\u2018i Federal Judicial Selection Commission. He has also served on the American Bar Association\u2019s Standing Committees on Judicial Selection, Compensation &amp; Tenure and on Judicial Independence as well as on the ABA\u2019s House of Delegates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Honorable Mark E. Recktenwald, Chief Justice, Hawai\u2018i Supreme Court<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark E. Recktenwald was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Hawai\u2018i Supreme Court on September 14, 2010. He joined the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice on May 11, 2009, and previously served as Chief Judge of the Intermediate Court of Appeals beginning in April 2007. Prior to his appointment to the Intermediate Court of Appeals, Chief Justice Recktenwald served as the Director of the Hawai\u2018i Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, an Assistant United States Attor- ney for the District of Hawai`i, and an attorney in private practice. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his law degree from the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-theme-primary-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><strong>Aviam Soifer, former Dean, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai\u2018i at M\u0101noa<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Dean Soifer received his law degree from Yale Law School. He also holds B.A. cum laude (1969) and Master of Urban Studies (1972) degrees from Yale. In 1972-73, Dean Soifer clerked for then-United States District Judge Jon O. Newman. He subsequently received Boston College\u2019s Distinguished Senior Research Award and was appointed as a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Wisconsin\u2019s Legal Studies Institute. His book, Law and the Company We Keep (Harvard University Press, 1995) was awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu Triennial National Jesuit Book Prize in professional studies. Dean Soifer began teaching law at the University of Connecticut in 1973, received a Law and Humanities Fellowship at Harvard University in 1976-77, and taught at Boston University from 1979-1993. He served as Dean and taught at Boston College Law School from 1993-1998 and continued to teach there until 2003, when he became Dean of the University of Hawai\u2018i\u2019s William S. Richardson School of Law. He left the deanship in 2020 but continues to teach students primarily in the areas of constitutional law, legal history, legal writing, and law and the humanities. 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