Daylin-Rose Heather was named Deputy Administrative Director of the Courts effective Jan. 3, 2024. 

From 2017 to 2021, Heather served as a Special Assistant to the Administrative Director of the Courts. Prior to that, she was a judicial law clerk for Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald, as well as Intermediate Court of Appeals Judges Daniel R. Foley and Alexa D.M. Fujise, both of whom have since retired. 

Heather was a staff attorney at the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation from 2021 to 2023 and most recently returned to the Judiciary as a staff attorney at the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court. She is a member of the HSBA’s Judicial Administration Committee, HSBA’s Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services to the Public, and the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court’s Permanent Committee on Equality and Access to the Courts. 

A graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law, Heather was the Outside Articles Editor for the University of Hawaiʻi Law Review and obtained a certificate in Native Hawaiian Law from the Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. 

In a press release Heather said,  “I am deeply honored by this appointment and humbled to serve as Deputy Administrative Director of the Courts. I look forward to working with our judges and judicial employees, and collaborating with our government, legal, and community partners, to serve the people of Hawaiʻi.”

 

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