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 | New York City,New York,U.S. | December 12,1957
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]
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]
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