  {"id":55370,"date":"2017-01-23T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=55370"},"modified":"2020-03-05T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:58:19","slug":"kapiolani-alumnus-recognized-by-national-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/23\/kapiolani-alumnus-recognized-by-national-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapi\u02bbolani alumnus recognized by national paralegal organization"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_55395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55395\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/kapiolani-badua-r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"271\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/kapiolani-badua-r.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/kapiolani-badua-r-240x260.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronell Badua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paralegals.org\/i4a\/pages\/index.cfm?pageid=1\">National Federation of Paralegal Associations, Inc.<\/a> (NFPA) is pleased to announce that <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> resident and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/a> alumnus <strong>Ronell B. Badua<\/strong> has been elected Region <abbr title=\"one\">I<\/abbr> director for the 2017&#8211;2018 term.<\/p>\n<p>Badua received his associate in science paralegal certificate from <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> in fall\u00a02014. He has served in a variety of positions for the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Paralegal Association, including president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, director of publications, director of professional development, board advisor and local association national affairs delegate to the <abbr title=\"National Federation of Paralegal Associations, Inc.\">NFPA<\/abbr> for eight consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>Badua was recognized as the 2011 Paralegal of the Year by the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Paralegal Association, and in 2014 was awarded the Career Achievement Award for his outstanding and meritorious service to the legal community and paralegal profession. <strong>Susan Jaworowski<\/strong>, paralegal program director, said &ldquo;Badua was a dedicated student who took advantage of every educational opportunity. He had an evident drive to succeed and has been deeply engaged in the Honolulu paralegal community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Badua is a paralegal with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.gov\/cor\">Department of the Corporation Counsel<\/a>, City and County of Honolulu and contributes his paralegal experience as the city&#8217;s transit paralegal working on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honolulutransit.org\/\">Honolulu Rail Transit Project<\/a>, the largest public works and first grade-separated fixed rail system in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Louise Yamamoto<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Federation of Paralegal Associations has elected <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> paralegal program graduate Ronell B. Badua, as Region <abbr title=\"Romannumeral one\">I<\/abbr> director for 2017&#8211;2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[679,63,154,71],"class_list":["post-55370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-law","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55370","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=55370"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112593,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55370\/revisions\/112593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}