Brandon Kimura added to an already impressive list of career accomplishments by being certified as a Fellow of the Institute for Court Management at the National Center for State Courts. He becomes the first from Hawaii to complete the program, according to a release from Gov. David Y. Ige's office.
A Deputy Administrative Director of the Courts in the Hawaii State Judiciary, Kimura completed an in-depth program featuring elements of court management, research and executive leadership through three levels of certification. As part of the 50th class of graduates, he joins more than 1,300 alumni across 49 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and 12 foreign countries. According to the release, the Institute has delivered “training and education to judicial branch personnel in emerging areas of court leadership and management concepts.”
Kimura, the Deputy Director since 2017, has served as Special Assistant to the Administrative Director of the Courts. Prior to that, he was an attorney in private practice in Honolulu and Indianapolis; a judicial law clerk to the Chief Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals; and Special Assistant/Staff Attorney to Hawaii Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald. Kimura is a graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law.