Michael A. Lilly, Sr. is an American attorney who was

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from 1984 to 1985.

Biography

Michael A. Lilly was born in

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. He graduated from the

McGeorge School of Law University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law is a private, American Bar Association (ABA)-approved law school in the Oak Park neighborhood of the city of Sacramento, California. It is part of the University of the Pacific and is located on t ...

of the University of the Pacific with honors in 1974 and was admitted to the California bar in 1974 and the Hawaii

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the next year. Lilly was a Hawaii Deputy Attorney General from 1975 to 1979 and practiced in

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from 1979 to 1981. In 1981 he was named First Deputy Attorney General in Hawaii. Lilly retired as a Captain in the

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and served with the

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in combat during the

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. Lilly was appointed Hawaii Attorney General by Governor

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in June 1984. Lilly returned to private practice in 1985, and was succeeded by First Deputy Attorney General

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. He was a partner in Ning, Lilly & Jones from 1985 to 2019 when he retired.

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