OHA: Carmen Hulu Lindsey Will Remain Chair Of Board Of Trustees
The board also voted for Mililani Trask to serve as vice chair in its first meeting since the Nov. 8 election.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees voted unanimously to keep Maui trustee Carmen Hulu Lindsey as chair at a meeting on Monday.
It was the first meeting after the November primary elections, which ushered in two new faces holding at-large seats on the nine-member panel — Brickwood Galuteria, a former state senator, and Keoni Souza, a real estate agent.
“Thank you to my colleagues for the trust that you put in me,” Lindsey said at the meeting. “I promise to continue working as hard as I have been for our lahui (nation, race, tribe, people), for improving the conditions of our Native Hawaiians.”
Lindsey, a trustee since 2012, is a former properties administrator for Maui Land and Pineapple Co. and a former administrator for the County of Maui’s Land Use and Codes Division. She’s also a recording artist.
OHA also selected Big Island trustee Mililani Trask as vice chair. Trask replaced former vice chair Lei Ahu Isa, who lost her bid for the at-large seat during the November elections. Trask is an attorney and a prominent Native Hawaiian rights advocate.
OHA is a semiautonomous state agency created in 1978 that manages more than $600 million worth of assets on behalf of Native Hawaiians.
