  {"id":6689,"date":"2012-05-18T08:46:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2021-12-10T12:13:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T22:13:05","slug":"new-board-of-regents-members-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/05\/18\/new-board-of-regents-members-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"New Board of Regents members sworn in"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_6690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6690\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/regents-incoming.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"245\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/regents-incoming.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/regents-incoming-260x159.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Regents Benjamin Kudo, John Dean and Tom Shigemoto were sworn in at a recent <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Board of Regents meeting with reappointed Regent Carl Carlson (second from left).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three new members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/bor\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Board of Regents<\/a> were sworn in at the board&#8217;s monthly meeting held May 17 at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Dean<\/strong>, <strong>Benjamin Kudo<\/strong> and <strong>Tom Shigemoto<\/strong> will begin their terms as regents on July 1. A fourth incoming regent, <strong>Jeffrey Acido<\/strong>, will be sworn in at a later date. His term also begins on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Dean, representing Honolulu County, is president and chief executive officer of Central Pacific Bank and Central Pacific Financial Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Kudo, an at-large representative, is an attorney and the chief financial officer and manager of the land use, administrative and environmental law group of Imanaka Kudo and Fujimoto.<\/p>\n<p>Shigemoto, representing <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> County, is vice president of planning for A&amp;B Properties, Inc., the real estate development division of Alexander and Baldwin, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Acido is the student regent and is a graduate student working towards an <abbr>MA<\/abbr> in Asian studies, focusing on the Philippines, with a concentration in Ilokano.<\/p>\n<h2>Outgoing regents honored<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6691\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/regents-outgoing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"215\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/regents-outgoing.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/regents-outgoing-260x139.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outgoing Regents Ramon de la Pena, Teena Rasmussen and Dennis Hirota were recognized for their service. Not pictured is outgoing student Regent Matthew Williams.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The board also recognized members whose terms are ending June 30. Outgoing regents honored included <strong>Ram&#243;n de la Pe&#241;a<\/strong>, <strong>Dennis Hirota<\/strong>, <strong>Teena Rasmussen<\/strong> and <strong>Matthew Williams<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>de la Pe&#241;a, a retired <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa professor and agronomist, has represented <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> County on the Board of Regents since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Hirota joined the Board of Regents in 2008 representing Honolulu County. He is the president of Sam Hirota, Inc., a 45-year-old civil engineering and surveying consulting company.<\/p>\n<p>A regent since 2008, Rasmussen is coordinator of the Office of Economic Development for Maui and is involved with her family-owned company, Paradise Flower Farms.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who currently holds the student seat on the board, is a graduate with an <abbr>MS<\/abbr> in nursing and an <abbr>MBA<\/abbr> from <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New members of the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Board of Regents were sworn in and outgoing members were honored at the May board meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,28],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-6689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-governance","tag-board-of-regents","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6689"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153017,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions\/153017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}