Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 28, Number 6, 1 June 2011 — NEW COMMISSIONERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW COMMISSIONERS

This year, six new Commissioners are slated to join the nine-member board that oversees the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. The Commissioners join current board members Chairman Alapaki Nahale-a, Perry Artates of Maui, who was reconfirmed through 2015, and Henry K. Tancayo of Moloka'i, whose term ends in 2012. Leimana K. DaMate of West Hawai'i, who was appointed after the legislative session ended, is an interim Commissioner pending confirmation by the state Senate.