Margery Bronster

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Margery Bronster served as Attorney General of Hawaii from 1995 to 1999, the first woman to hold the office for a full term. During her tenure in the administration of Governor of Hawaii Benjamin J. Cayetano, she won the state a multibillion dollar settlement from tobacco companies and led an investigation into abuses related to the Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate. She was reappointed to a second term by Cayetano but it was her investigation of Bishop Estate trustees that caused her to fall out of favor with the Hawaii State Legislature resulting in her failed confirmation to a second term by the senate.

Bronster graduated from Brown University, where she became fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and later Columbia University Law School in 1982. She went into private practice for Shearman & Sterling in New York City in litigation. She moved to Honolulu, Hawaii and joined the firm Carlsmith Ball Wichman Murray Case & Ichiki. That law firm is now known as Carlsmith Ball, LLP. Bronster is now a name partner in Hololulu based Bronster Hochibata.