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

Lehua Kauhane
President
DTL 

Nāpali Souza
Secretary
Salvage Public

Beadie Kanahele Dawson
Director
Settle Meyer Law

Summer Sylva
Director
Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation

Tyler Gomes
Director
Elemental Excelerator

Kapono Kiakona
Vice President
​Porter McGuire Kiakona & Chow LLP

Cecelia C. Y. Chang
Director
​Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution

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

Richard Naiwieha Wurdeman
Director
Attorney at Law

Judge Melvin Soong
Director
Retired

Yuklin Aluli
​​Treasurer
​Law Offices of Yuklin Aluli

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

Amanda Furman 
​​Director
Corporation Counsel

Patrick Shea
​​Director
Shea & Kamiya LLLC

Judge Richard Perkins
​​Director
Retired