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Yamaguchi
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Yamaguchi is the assistant to the president and chief executive
officer at The Queen's Health Systems. Ms. Yamaguchi's primary
role in this position is to develop and implement a system-wide
plan that articulates and demonstrates QHS’ commitment
to Native Hawaiian health.
Ms. Yamaguchi
is a 1982 honors graduate of the Kamehameha Schools. In 1986,
she graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor
of science degree in education; and in 1989, completed her
graduate work at Princeton University, receiving a master's
degree in public affairs/urban and regional planning.
She started
her professional life working in the federal government as
a budget examiner in the Housing Branch at the Office of Management
and Budget, Executive Office of the President in Washington,
D.C. In 1990, she returned home to Hawai'i, taking a position
at the Kamehameha Schools as a land investment analyst. After
two and a half years at the Kamehameha Schools, Ms. Yamaguchi
accepted a position at the Hawai'i Real Estate Research and
Education Center where she managed a $400,000 federal research
grant given to the center to study residential leasehold issues.
In 1995,
Governor Benjamin Cayetano appointed Ms. Yamaguchi to the
cabinet-level position of deputy to the chairman of the Hawaiian
Homes Commission. As the deputy to the chairman, Ms. Yamaguchi
took the lead on a series of high-profile special projects
while managing the day to day operations of the Department
of Hawaiian Home Lands as part of the chairman’s office
team.
Ms. Yamaguchi
has served as a member of the Affordable Housing Advisory
Council of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, and the
U.S. Census Racial and Ethnic Advisory Committee for the Native
Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders Population. She is currently
a board member for the Hawai'i Technology Institute.
Ms. Yamaguchi
was born and raised in Kailua, Oahu. Her interests include
hula, the study of the Hawaiian language, and traveling. She
is married to Chris K. Yamaguchi and is the mother of a six-year
old daughter, Pomaikai, and a one-year old son, Kalakea.
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