David C. Farmer, Successor-Trustee vs. Harmon
(Formerly Woo vs. Harmon & Nicholson vs. Harmon)
U.S. District Court For the District of Hawaii
Judges: David A. Ezra; Kevin S. Chang
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DEFENDANT’S WITNESS
CLAIRE ASAM
Executive Director, Queen Liliuokalani Children’s Center; Trustee, Queen Liliuokalani Trust.
Claire Asam was appointed to the Selection Committee to select a new Kamehameha Schools Trustee to replace outgoing trustee Constance Lau. Other members of the Selection Committee include Robert Alm, Dr. Claire Asam, George Freeland, Francis Keala, Melody MacKenzie, Benjamin Matsubara and Michael Rawlins.
Claire Asam is a member of the Board of Governors, Honolulu Community Foundation. Fellow members of the board include Chair Robert A. Alm, Sr. V.P., Hawaiian Electric Co.; Gary Gifford, President & CEO, Maui Land & Pineapple; Anthony Guerrero, Jr., Executive V.P., First Hawaiian Bank; Lawrence M. Johnson, Past Chair of the Board & CEO, Century Financial Corp., Bank of Hawaii; Bill D. Mills, Chair, Bill Mills Development & Investment Co., Inc.; Jeffrey Watanabe, Watanabe Ing & Kawashima.
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July 9, 2007
Lili‘uokalani board taps Asam
to be new trustee
David Peters, who is retiring, praises the board's pick
of the veteran educator
Star-Bulletin staff
The board of trustees of the Queen Lili'uokalani Trust has nominated Claire Asam to replace trustee David Peters, who is retiring.
Asam's name will be submitted to the Probate Court, according to trust officials. If approved, she would be one of three trustees overseeing assets -- mostly land -- valued at $386 million and programs to help destitute and orphaned children.
Asam has been the president of the trust's program division since 1999. Prior to that, she was an educator for 25 years with the Kamehameha Schools, where she was also named a distinguished alumna. Asam also has a master's degree and Ph.D. in education from the University of Hawaii.
"Claire is a fine, fine person and she will do well," Peters said in a news release. "I look forward to helping her achieve a seamless transition."
Board Chairman Thomas Kaulukukui Jr. said: "Claire has impeccable credentials. She has devoted her life to the education and care of our Hawaiian and other children."
The Lili'uokalani Trust was established by Hawaii's last monarch with her family lands to help orphaned and destitute children, with a preference given to native Hawaiian children.
According to its 2005 annual report, the trust directly served 5,185 children and indirectly reached 25,101 children through its programs and at the Queen Lili'uokalani children's centers.
The trust distributed $16.7 million in 2006 for charitable purposes. It owns 6,500 acres of land, including property in Waikiki that generates lease rental income.
Most of the trust's land is on the Big Island. The trust is planning a major development in Kailua-Kona with the MacNaughton Group and the Kobayashi Group involving 3,500 acres and a proposed shopping center called Kona Commons, according to a trust spokeswoman.
http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/09/news/story06.html
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Claire Asam is expected to testify regarding her business, professional, personal and political relationships with Kamehameha Schools, Constance Lau, Diane Plotts, Robert Kihune, Oswald Stender, Henry Peters, Lokelani Lindsey, Richard Wong, Gerard Jervis, Douglas Ing, Gilbert Tam, William S. Richardson, Hamilton McCubbin, Francis Keala, Lyn Anzai, Earl Anzai, Benjamin Matsubara, Dee Jay Mailer, Colleen Wong, Edwina Clarke, Judge Kevin Chang, Colbert Matsumoto, Judge Barry Kurren, Faye Kurren, The Nature Conservancy, Nathan Aipa, Louanne Kam, Maryanne Inouye, Yukio Takemoto, Frank Jahrling, First Hawaiian Bank, Judge Patrick Yim, Mufi Hanneman, Milton Holt, James Nicholson, David Farmer, LeeAnn Crabbe, Corbett Kalama, David Fairbanks, Boyd MacNaughton, Bert Kobayashi, Jeff Stone, and others to be named upon discovery.
Internet References:
http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/09/news/story06.html
http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/15/news/story12.html
www.kycbs.net/QueenLilTrust.htm
www.kycbs.net/American-Savings.htm
www.kycbs.net/First-Hawaiian-Bank.htm
www.kycbs.net/Hawaiian-Electric.htm
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