Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 9, Number 8, 1 ʻAukake 1992 — Heen to be honored at Lei Hulu Mamo Award banquet [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Heen to be honored at Lei Hulu Mamo Award banquet

The sixth annual Lei Hulu Mamo Award banquet, sponsored by the Hawaiian Civic Political Action Committee (HACPAC) will be held Thursday, Sept. 10 at the Queen Kapi'olani Hotel, Akala Room. HACPAC is honoring Judge Walter

Meheula Heen, former legislator and eouneilman. The Lei Hulu Mamo award is given annually by HACPAC to an outstanding Hawaiian for his or her contributions in Hawaiian politics. The lei hulu mamo, or feather lei of mamo feathers, was worn by Hawaiian royalty and has eome to symbolize distinguished rank.

Heen, 74, is an associate judge in the State of Hawai'i Intermediate Court of Appeals, serving an extended term to 2002. He has served as a state district and circuit court judge, U.S. attorney, and U.S. district court judge. He served in the last Territorial Legislature and the first Hawai'i State Legislature, and was a state senator in 1966-68 and City Councilman from

1969 to 1972. He is a past president of the Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu. For ticket information contact Ethelreda Kahalewai at 486-6079.

Judge Walter Meheula Heen