About Us.

NHBA strives for justice and effective legal representation for Native Hawaiians.

Our Mission

​The Native Hawaiian Bar Association is an association of lawyers, judges and other legal professionals of Hawaiian ancestry that promotes excellence, unity, cooperation, education and the exchange of ideas among its members and in the larger community.

Established in 1992

Our membership includes attorneys ranging from solo practitioners to members of large firms, corporations, legal services organizations, non-profit organizations and governmental agencies.

Special memberships are available to non-Hawaiian legal professionals who promote the development of law for the benefit of Native Hawaiians and to law students.

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Our Board of Directors

Summer Sylva
President
Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation 

Nāpali Souza
Secretary
Salvage Public

Yuklin Aluli
​​Treasurer
​Law Offices of Yuklin Aluli

Beadie Kanahele Dawson
Director
Settle Meyer Law

Lehua Kauhane
Director
Queen Emma Land Company

Kapono Kiakona
Vice President
​Porter McGuire Kiakona & Chow LLP

Melody K. MacKenzie
Director
​William S. Richardson School of Law

Richard Naiwieha Wurdeman
Director
Attorney at Law

Judge Melvin Soong
Director
Retired

LindaLee (Cissy) K. Farm
​​Director
Farm Benedict Sugihara LLLP

Amanda Furman 
​​Director
Department of the Attorney General

Patrick Shea
​​Director
Shea & Kamiya LLLC

Ha'aheo Kaho'ohalahala
Director
Hawai'i County Prosecutor's Office