Margery S. Bronster (born December 12, 1957) is a lawyer who served as

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from 1995 to 1999.

Career

Bronster graduated from Brown University, where she became fluent in

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, and then Columbia University Law School in 1982. She went into private practice for Shearman & Sterling in

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in litigation. She moved to

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in 1988 and joined the firm Carlsmith Ball Wichman Murray Case & Ichiki. That law firm is now known as Carlsmith Ball, LLP. In 1995 she was appointed as the first woman to hold the office of

for a full term. During her tenure in the Democratic administration of

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Benjamin J. Cayetano, she won the state a multibillion-dollar

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from tobacco companies. In 1997 she led an investigation into abuses by the Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate trustees. She was reappointed to a second term by Cayetano, but her investigation of Bishop Estate trustees caused her to fall out of favor with the Hawaii State Legislature, resulting in her failed confirmation to a second term by the state senate in 1999. She was replaced as Attorney General by Earl I. Anzai, who was formerly budget director. Bronster then became a founding partner in the Honolulu-based Bronster Crabtree & Hoshibata, now Bronster Fujichaku Robbins. Best Lawyers in America recognized her as 2016 "Lawyer of the Year" in Honolulu, in the practice area of Insurance Litigation.

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Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Who is this person who dares to go eye to eye with Bishop Estate?
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