STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1432

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    GOV. MSG. NO. 361

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred Governor's Message No. 361, submitting for study and consideration the nomination of: 

 

Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board

 

G.M. No. 361

MELANIE S. MATSUI,

for a term to expire 6-30-2018,

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     Your Committee has reviewed the personal history, resume, and statement submitted by the nominee, and finds Melanie S. Matsui to have the necessary qualifications to be nominated to the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board.

 

     Testimony in support of the nomination of Melanie S. Matsui was submitted by one organization and thirty-one individuals.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Ms. Matsui earned Juris Doctorate and Bachelor of Science degrees from Willamette University.  She is currently an Associate with Matsui Chung, representing employers in workers' compensation cases before the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Disability Compensation Division and Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board.  She is a former Associate of Kessner Duca Umebayashi Bain & Matsunaga and Leroy T. Kuwasaki, Jr., AAL, ALC.

 

     Ms. Matsui is a current member of the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board.  She is also active in the Haleiwa Jodo Mission and Haleiwa Jodo Mission Young Buddhist Association, and has previously served as a member of the Board of the Friends of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii.

 

     Ms. Matsui is highly esteemed as a hard-working and extremely capable attorney whose expertise, intelligence, and energy would continue to be valuable assets to the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee, after full consideration of the background, experience, and qualifications of the nominee, has found the nominee to be qualified for the position to which nominated and recommends that the Senate advise and consent to the nomination.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor,

 

 

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair