Margery Bronster
Margery Bronster | |
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10th Attorney General of Hawaii | |
In office 1995–1999 | |
Governor | Ben Cayetano |
Preceded by | Robert A. Marks |
Succeeded by | Earl I. Anzai |
Personal details | |
Born | (1957-12-12) December 12, 1957 (age 66) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Education | Brown University (BA) Columbia Law School (JD) |
Margery S. Bronster (born December 12, 1957)[1] is a lawyer who served as Attorney General of Hawaii from 1995 to 1999.[2]
Career
Bronster graduated from Brown University, where she became fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and then Columbia University Law School in 1982.[3] She went into private practice for Shearman & Sterling in New York City in litigation. She moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1988, and joined the firm Carlsmith Ball Wichman Murray Case & Ichiki. That law firm is now known as Carlsmith Ball, LLP.
In 1995, she was appointed as the first woman to hold the office of Attorney General of Hawaii for a full term.
During her tenure in the Democratic administration of Governor of Hawaii Benjamin J. Cayetano, she won the state a multibillion-dollar Master Settlement Agreement from tobacco companies. In 1997, she led an investigation into abuses by the Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate trustees. She was reappointed to a second term by Cayetano, but her investigation of Bishop Estate trustees caused her to fall out of favor with the Hawaii State Legislature, resulting in her failed confirmation to a second term by the state senate in 1999.[4]: 256–257 [5] She was replaced as Attorney General by Earl I. Anzai, who was formerly budget director.
Bronster then became a founding partner in the Honolulu-based Bronster Crabtree & Hoshibata, now Bronster Fujichaku Robbins.[6] Best Lawyers in America recognized her as 2016 "Lawyer of the Year" in Honolulu, in the practice area of Insurance Litigation.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Omandam, Pat (April 29, 1999). "Bronster unknown in 1994". archives.starbulletin.com. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "MARGERY S. BRONSTER".
- ^ "Rising Stars: Part 1". Alumni report on web site. Columbia University Law School. Fall 2002. Archived from the original on June 24, 2010. Retrieved November 30, 2010.
- ^ Samuel Pailthorpe King and Randall W. Roth (March 2006). Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3014-4.
- ^ Purdum, Todd S. (15 May 1999). "For $6 Billion Hawaii Legacy, a New Day". New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Margery S. Bronster, Esq.: Founding Partner". Bronster Fujichaku Robbins: Attorneys at Law. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
External links
- Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Who is this person who dares to go eye to eye with Bishop Estate?
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