Posted on: Thursday, January 6, 2005

Ginoza to join office of attorney general

Advertiser Staff

Lisa Ginoza has been named first deputy attorney general for the state by Gov. Linda Lingle.

Ginoza, who will begin her new job Jan. 18, replaces Rick Bissen, whom Lingle has tapped to head the Department of Public Safety.

Ginoza, 40, has been a partner in the law firm of McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon since 1996, specializing in complex litigation. She has also been an adjunct professor in appellate advocacy at the University of Hawai'i's Richardson School of Law, from which she graduated. She was a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Samuel P. King.

Ginoza will report to Attorney General Mark Bennett, who also once was affiliated with the McCorriston law firm.

Last week, Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann named Carrie K.S. Okinaga, another former McCorriston partner, as Honolulu's corporation counsel, the city's top civil litigator.