David Louie

David Louie has been Hawaii's Attorney General since January 14, 2011. He was appointed to a four-year term by Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie. Mr. Louie graduated from Occidental College (cum laude) in 1973 with an A.B. in Sociology, and received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1977. While in law school, he worked as an intern at the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, CA, Common Cause in Washington, D.C., and the Federal Public Defender in San Francisco, CA. From 1977 to 1988, Mr. Louie was an attorney at Case & Lynch, practicing in the areas of civil litigation, personal injury, insurance defense, commercial litigation, contract disputes and construction defect litigation. He became a partner at the firm in 1984. In 1988, Mr. Louie was one of the founders of the Honolulu law firm of Roeca Louie & Hiraoka. From 1988 through 2010, Mr. Louie has been the managing partner of the firm. Mr. Louie has been married for twenty four years to Johanna Chen Chuan. They have two grown children who attend college.