{"id":136503,"date":"2021-03-02T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=136503"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:56:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T02:56:22","slug":"law-grads-community-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/02\/law-grads-community-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"4 law grads honored as emerging community leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_136525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136525\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/manoa-law-rachel-james.jpg\" alt=\"magazine cover\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/manoa-law-rachel-james.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/manoa-law-rachel-james-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/manoa-law-rachel-james-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March <em>Hawaii Business Magazine<\/em> cover featuring Rachel James.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Four graduates of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> were honored as young community leaders as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiibusiness.com\/20-for-the-next-20-2021\/\">2021 &ldquo;Twenty for the Next Twenty&rdquo;<\/a> cohort in the March issue of <em>Hawaii Business Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The four include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jamie Cheng<\/strong>&#8211;director of commercial operations at American Savings Bank<\/li>\n<li><strong>Khara Jabola-Carolus<\/strong>&#8211;executive director, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Commission on the Status of Women<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summer Kaiawe<\/strong>&#8211;attorney and partner, Watanabe Ing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel James<\/strong>&#8211;attorney, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Public Utilities Commission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Law Dean <strong>Camille Nelson<\/strong> said the professional journeys of these Richardson graduates highlights the many fields available to graduates with legal expertise, and is a testament to the exceptional education they received at the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> law school.<\/p>\n<h2>Jamie Cheng<\/h2>\n<p>Cheng led her team of a dozen commercial bankers at American Savings Bank to move quickly to land loans for small businesses as part of Congress\u2019 Paycheck Protection Program in 2020. According to the magazine, within a few weeks, the team had &ldquo;handled 4,100 loans, secured $370 million in federal funds and saved an estimated 40,000 <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> jobs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Whenever something scares me I know I just have to do it,&rdquo; said Cheng. &ldquo;One of the most frightening things was leaving law the first time and starting my own business. But I said, &lsquo;If I don\u2019t do it I\u2019ll never do it, and I will look back and be sorry.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Khara Jabola-Carolus<\/h2>\n<p>Jabola-Carolus has been a fierce advocate for women. &ldquo;She led efforts during the pandemic to distribute laptops to single mothers and created a state feminist economic recovery plan in collaboration with community members,&rdquo; noted the magazine. Additionally, she helped pass legislation to allow individuals to designate their gender as &ldquo;X&rdquo; on their driver\u2019s licenses and for people convicted of prostitution to have their convictions erased if they met certain requirements.<\/p>\n<h2>Rachel James<\/h2>\n<p>James has focused her efforts on ensuring success for the state\u2019s clean energy goals by 2045. &ldquo;In her new role as an attorney with the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Public Utilities Commission, James helps guide the agency in regulating local utilities and pushing them to meet the state clean energy goals,&rdquo; said the magazine. As a member of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> law school\u2019s evening part-time program, James worked full-time as a project manager for the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Center for Advanced Technologies while completing her law degree.<\/p>\n<h2>Summer Kaiawe<\/h2>\n<p>As an attorney with a mixed practice that includes business litigation, land use and intellectual property, Kaiawe\u2019s work has attracted outside attention. &ldquo;Super Lawyers named her to its Rising Stars list each year from 2017 to 2020.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is an example of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa\u2019s goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=20\">Enhancing Student Success<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), one of four goals identified in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf\">2015&#8211;25 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/article\/four-richardson-graduates-honored-emerging-community-leaders-hawaii-business-magazine\">For more information, see the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> law school\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;By Beverly Creamer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four graduates of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> law school were honored as young community leaders as part of the 2021 &ldquo;Twenty for the Next Twenty&#038;rdquo cohort in <em>Hawaii Business Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,679,154,1480,1466,9,68],"class_list":["post-136503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-law","tag-manoa-academic-innovation-engaged-learning","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-uh-manoa","tag-william-s-richardson-school-of-law","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136503"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136533,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136503\/revisions\/136533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}