We were honoured to host the Honourable Justice McKenna for a conversation on “Law, Gender & Rights in the United States: A Critical Conversation.”

Justice McKenna was sworn in as Associate Justice on March 3, 2011. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a 1982 graduate of the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.

Justice McKenna was a civil litigator, corporate counsel, and law professor before becoming a Hawaii state trial court judge in 1993. As a trial court judge, she presided in District, Circuit and also served as Senior Judge of the Family Court of the First Circuit.Justice McKenna is the first openly LGBTQ judge to sit on the Supreme Court of Hawai’i.