Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 3, Number 1, 1 Ianuali 1986 — Kauai Deputy AG is Home Grown Product [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kauai Deputy AG is Home Grown Product

By Carmen L. (Boots) Panui Community Resource Specialist Kaua'i and Ni'ihau

Cristobel Kauahi Kealoha, a native Hawaiian from Kekaha, was recently appointed Deputy Attorney General assigned to Kaua'i's Child Protective Service Division. This is believed to be the first time a Deputy AG has been named for the neighbor islands. The new appointee, daughter of Herbert and

Cristobel Holt Kauahi, formerly worked as Kaua 1 County attorney for the Family Support Division. She is a graduate of Waimea High School and received a bachelor of arts degree in music from the University of Hawaii and a fifth year professional certificate in secondary education. Following eight years in the classroom as an intermediate and high school teacher, she gave up that career at age 35 to pursue a law degree at the UH's William S. Richardson Schoo! of Law in 1975, graduating in 1978. Her other law background includes service as Deputy Attorney General in Honolulu handling child abuse and personnel and one year of private practice. Despite her new career, she has not left her music major on the back burner. On the contrary. She served as choral director of the Pearl City Hawaiian Civic Club and is currently pianist for the Kaua'i Bible Church. Kealoha is also mueh in demand at parties and community functions, especially at sing-alongs where her talented fingers ean pound the ivories from Hawaiian to the Gay Nineties to rock. She resides in Kalaheo with her three children — Steven, 20; Miehael, 17; and Katherine Pulama, 11. Her previous activities have included service as a member of the Hawaii State Teachers Association board of directors; president of the UH law school alumni association; member of the Pacific Asian Women's Council; and commissioner for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lahds. During her iaw school days, she also organized a choral group composed of law students and played powder puff football.