"I appreciate Paul's willingness to continue to serve the public and ensure the people of Hawai'i have open access to government records and public information," said Lingle. "Based on his legal experience and his long record of public service, I am confident Paul will build on our administration's achievements in ensuring state government is open and transparent."
Tsukiyama currently heads the labor and personnel section of the City and County of Honolulu's Department of the Corporation Counsel. Prior to joining the Corporation Counsel in 1997, he was the director of the Special Prosecution Division of the City's Department of the Prosecuting Attorney. He also served as supervisor of the Prosecuting Attorney's White Collar Crime Branch and was a deputy prosecuting attorney.
Tsukiyama previously worked for the State of Hawaii as a deputy attorney general in the Commerce and Economic Development Division of the Department of the Attorney General, as well as a special enforcement attorney with the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.
He is a former chairperson of the Criminal Justice and Corrections Section of the Hawai'i State Bar Association and also served on the Hawaii State Judiciary's Committee on Hawaii Rules and of Penal Procedures and Circuit Court Criminal Rules. He is also served as an arbitrator for the First Circuit.
A graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Tsukiyama earned his juris doctor from Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon.
