Darien W.L. Ching Nagata at a glance
- Current role
- Family Court Judge
- Jurisdiction
- Hawaii · State
- Judicial service
- Active
- Term and retention
- Current term ends May 19, 2028
Darien W.L. Ching Nagata
Family Court Judge · Hawaii Family Court, Third Circuit
Biography
Professional career
- Hawai‘i Third Circuit Family Court (Hawai‘i Island) and is listed as a District Family Court Judge with a term running from May 20, 2022, to May 19, 2028.
- District Family Court Judge for the Hawai‘i Third Circuit, appointed in 2016 by Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald to fill the vacancy created by Judge Barbara T. Takase’s retirement
- From 1998 to 2016 she held the role of a deputy prosecuting attorney for the County of Hawaii
- Community service: Volunteer arbitrator for the Court Annexed Arbitration Program, volunteer mediator for the Hawai‘i County Foreclosure Mediation Program, and Commissioner of the Hawai‘i Access to Justice Commission
Education
- University of Hawai‘i William S
Additional information
- She received the Outstanding Judicial Achievement Award from the Hawai‘i Women Lawyers in 2021
- She graduated from University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law and was admitted to the Hawaii bar in 1997.
- Family Court Judge, Hawaii Family Court, Third Circuit.
- Official site: Hawai‘i Judiciary – Judge Darien W.L. Ching Nagata Judiciary
- Nagata has been active in the Hawai‘i State Bar Association, Hawai‘i County Bar Association, and Hawai‘i State Trial Judges Association.
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