Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 32, Number 4, 1 April 2015 — Broder honored by American Bar Association [ARTICLE]

Broder honored by American Bar Association

Sherry Broder, a longtime eounsel for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, is being honored by the American Bar Association with its "2015 Solo & Small Firm Lifetime Achievement Award." Broder served as Deputy Chief Counsel at the 1978 Constitutional Convention and drafted constitutional provisions creating OHA. She has represented Native Hawaiians in two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and defended the constitutionality of many Native Hawaiian programs. She served as class liaison for 9,500 victims of torture during the time Ferdinand Marcos was president of the Philippines and was part

of the legal team that won a $2 billion verdict, one of the largest in U.S. history. She is an attorney in private practice, lecturer at the University of Hawai'i William S. Richardson School of Law and adjunct research fellow at the East-West Center. She is one of two Hawai'i attorneys being honored. The other is Leighton Oshima, who focuses on insurance defense, workers' eompensation and insurance bad faith.