Holly T. Shikada (born c. 1960) is an American politician and attorney who served as

Attorney General of Hawaii The Attorney General of Hawaii ( haw, Loio Kuhina) is the chief legal officer and chief law enforcement officer of Hawaii. In present-day statehood within the United States, the Attorney General is appointed by the elected governor with the approv ...

from 2021 to 2022. She was appointed on December 10, 2021 by Governor

David Ige David Yutaka Ige (; born January 15, 1957) is an American politician and engineer who served as the eighth governor of Hawaii from 2014 to 2022. A Democrat, he served in the Hawaii State Senate from 1995 to 2014 and the Hawaii House of Represen ...

following the resignation of

Clare Connors Clare Elizabeth Connors (born May 1974) is an American lawyer who has served as the United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii since 2022. She served as the 16th attorney general of Hawaii from January 3, 2019 to December 10, 2021. She wa ...

. The

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confirmed her nomination on April 19, 2022. She was succeeded by Anne E. Lopez on December 5, 2022.

Education

Shikada attended the

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The University of Hawaii at Mānoa (University of Hawaii—Mānoa, UH Mānoa, Hawai'i, or simply UH) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Manoa, Mānoa, a neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii. It ...

, where she earned a

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in accounting, and earned a

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from the

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Career

Shikada was admitted to the Hawaii bar in October 1985. She started her career with the law firm Fujiyama Duffy & Fujiyama before serving over 30 years as a deputy Attorney General. Shikada was responsible for leading a unit to enforce the Felix Consent Decree. Shikada then served 18 years as the supervising deputy Attorney General for the Education Division before being appointed First Deputy Attorney General in March 2021. In 2021,

resigned as Attorney General to accept an appointment as the

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for the

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. Governor

, appointed Shikada to succeed Connors on December 10, 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shikada, Holly 1960s births Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women lawyers 21st-century American lawyers Hawaii Attorneys General Hawaii lawyers University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni William S. Richardson School of Law alumni Women in Hawaii politics