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Nakakuni nominated to be U.S. attorney for Hawaii
By Star-Bulletin staff
POSTED: 12:34 p.m. HST, Jul 10, 2009
President Barack Obama today announced his intent to nominate Florence T. Nakakuni for the position of U.S. attorney for Hawaii.
If her nomination is confirmed, Nakakuni would replace Ed Kubo, who has held the position since 2001.
Nakakuni, 57, has been an assistant United States attorney in Hawaii for 24 years, and she serves as chief of the Drug and Organized Crime Section.
Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, she worked as a counsel at the Navy Office of General Counsel in Pearl Harbor.
Nakakuni graduated from the University of Hawaii in Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law in 1978. Following law school, Nakakuni was a law clerk for Justice Thomas Ogata of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.
Obama nominated her along with five other lawyers for U.S. attorney posts. They are: Dennis Burke, in Arizona; Brendan Johnson, South Dakota; Karen Loeffler, Alaska; Steven Dettelbach, Northern District of Ohio; and Carter M. Stewart, Southern District of Ohio.
“Through their dedication and accomplishments in both public service and private practice, these fine attorneys have distinguished themselves as some of the best and brightest their profession has to offer,” Obama said in a news release announcing the nominations. “I am honored to nominate them as United States Attorneys and know that they will faithfully and tirelessly pursue justice on behalf of the American people.”
President Barack Obama today announced his intent to nominate Florence T. Nakakuni for the position of U.S. attorney for Hawaii.
If her nomination is confirmed, Nakakuni would replace Ed Kubo, who has held the position since 2001.
Nakakuni, 57, has been an assistant United States attorney in Hawaii for 24 years, and she serves as chief of the Drug and Organized Crime Section.
Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, she worked as a counsel at the Navy Office of General Counsel in Pearl Harbor.
Nakakuni graduated from the University of Hawaii in Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law in 1978. Following law school, Nakakuni was a law clerk for Justice Thomas Ogata of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.
Obama nominated her along with five other lawyers for U.S. attorney posts. They are: Dennis Burke, in Arizona; Brendan Johnson, South Dakota; Karen Loeffler, Alaska; Steven Dettelbach, Northern District of Ohio; and Carter M. Stewart, Southern District of Ohio.
“Through their dedication and accomplishments in both public service and private practice, these fine attorneys have distinguished themselves as some of the best and brightest their profession has to offer,” Obama said in a news release announcing the nominations. “I am honored to nominate them as United States Attorneys and know that they will faithfully and tirelessly pursue justice on behalf of the American people.”
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