Nelson Doi

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Nelson Doi, formally Nelson K. Doi (born January 1, 1922), was Lieutenant Governor of Hawaiʻi from 1974 to 1978 in the first elected administration of Governor of Hawaiʻi George Ariyoshi. Doi is a member of the Hawaiʻi Democratic Party.

Doi began his political career at the 1950 Hawaiʻi State Constitutional Convention that drafted the first state laws for Hawaiʻi that went into effect in 1959. He then served fourteen years in the Hawaiʻi State Senate from 1955 to 1969. Upon leaving the Hawaiʻi State Legislature, Doi was appointed to the Hawaiʻi State Judiciary as a circuit court judge where he served for five years. It was from the court that Doi was chosen as the running mate for George Ariyoshi. Fourteen months earlier, Ariyoshi, the previous Lieutenant Governor, became Acting Governor upon the incapacitating illness of longtime Governor John A. Burns.

After his service with as Lieutenant Governor, Doi was appointed to then-territorial High Court of the Marshall Islands. Upon his retirement from that court, Doi taught at various schools in Japan. Doi returned to Hawaiʻi and settled on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi where he helped build the North Hawaiʻi Community Hospital.