Kirstin M. Hamman

Professional career

• Sworn in as a Circuit Court Judge on December 17, 2021, following her appointment by Governor David Ige
• Circuit Court Judge (Second Circuit): Appointed October 8, 2021, confirmed October 29, 2021
• She became a Second Circuit Court judge in December 2021, filling Rhonda I. Loo's vacancy
• Became a full-time District Court Judge in 2018
• Sworn in as a full-time district judge in 2018 after per diem service beginning in 2014.
• District Court Judge (Second Circuit): held the role of a per diem judge beginning July 2014
• Circuit Court Judge, Hawaii Circuit Court, Second Circuit
• Judge in the Hawaiʻi State Judiciary, serving the Second Circuit (Maui County)

Education

Additional information

• She graduated from UH West Oahu and William S. Richardson School of Law, and was admitted to the Hawaii bar in 1997.
• Private practice specializing in family law and special education law (Legal Practice).
• Succeeded Judge Rhonda I.L. Loo
• Maui Office of Council Services, Public Defender's Office and Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, and clerked for Judge Boyd Mossman and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission.
• She previously worked as an attorney with the Maui Office of Council Services, the Public Defender’s Office, and the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii.
• Her private practice focused on family and special education law.