Kimberly Koide Iwao at a glance
- Current role
- Per Diem Judge
- Jurisdiction
- Hawaii · State
- Judicial service
- Active
Kimberly Koide Iwao
Per Diem Judge · Hawaii District and District Family Courts, First Circuit
Biography
Professional career
- Partner at Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, then in-house counsel and business executive at ProService Hawaii and Waterhouse, leading legal and compliance functions
- She has over 20 years of legal experience, previously serving as a partner at Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, LLLP, and as in-house counsel at ProService Hawaii and Waterhouse, Inc
- She directs the Legal Education Program and is an assistant professor at Kapiolani Community College, and has lectured at the Richardson School of Law
Education
- University of Hawaii at Manoa, Ph.D. in Learning Design and Technology, 2023
- University of Hawaii at Manoa, B.Ed. in Secondary Education and English
- Ms. Iwao is Program Director and Assistant Professor in the Legal Education Program at Kapi‘olani Community College, and has lectured at the University of Hawai‘i’s Richardson School of Law
Additional information
- Her firm reports legal rankings and ratings, service as past chair of the HSBA Probate & Estate Planning Section, Forty Under Forty recognition in 2010, Pacific Century Fellows 2011–2012, teaching recognition in 2021, Physicians Exchange leadership 2013–2024, and publications on trusts, estates and gamified training
- Licensed Hawaii attorney, legal educator, and a per diem judge in the First Judicial Circuit (Oahu) for district and family court cases
- Current per diem judge serving in the District and/or District Family courts in Hawaii's First Circuit
- UCLA, J.D
- This role is separate from her private legal practice and academic work
- She has also served in leadership roles such as Chair of the Hawaii State Bar Association’s Probate & Estate Planning Section and Director of the Physicians Exchange of Honolulu
- Kimberly Koide Iwao was born and raised in Honolulu and practices estate planning
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Camera Microphone Placement
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