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She was elected on November 3, 2020, and began her tenure on January 2, 2021. She is Chair of the Planning and the Economy Committee and Vice Chair of the Committee on Housing, Sustainability, and Health.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsEarly life and education[edit]Political career[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Early life and education[edit]Kia’\u0101ina is the daughter of parents Lorelei Haunani Anahu and Melvin Leialoha Kia’\u0101ina. She was born and raised on the island of Guam where her father served as a civilian in the U.S. Navy and later returned to her parents\u2019 homeland of Hawai\u2018i, where she graduated from the Kamehameha Schools. [1]Kia’\u0101ina received her B.A. from the University of Southern California in International Relations and Political Science, and her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. She also attended  Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. [1]Political career[edit]After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1985, Kia’\u0101ina served as a volunteer-intern to Hawai\u2018i U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye in Washington, D.C.[1] She also worked for Hawai\u2018i U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka during the 1990s, and as a Chief of Staff for U.S. Delegate Robert Underwood of Guam and U.S. Representative Ed Case.[1]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4In Hawai\u2018i, Kia’\u0101ina served as a Land Asset Manager at her alma mater, Kamehameha Schools, for two years before moving on in 2009 to work as chief advocate for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.[1]In 2012, Kia’\u0101ina ran to represent Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district in the United States Congress, following the retirement of U.S. Representative Mazie Hirono, who had decided to run for United States Senate following the retirement of Senator Akaka.[2] She was one of six candidates and placed third, losing to Representative-elect Tulsi Gabbard and former Mayor of Honolulu Mufi Hannemann.[3]On October 15, 2012, Neil Abercrombie, the Governor of Hawai\u2018i, appointed her to the Hawai’i Department of Land and Natural Resources, an office that was left vacant following the resignation of Guy Kaulukukui.[4]Following the death of Senator Inouye, who had represented the State of Hawai\u2018i since its founding, the Hawai\u2018i Democratic Party was given the ability to choose three possible replacements to recommend to Governor Abercrombie. On December 26, 2012, the party met and chose the three contenders. Kia’\u0101ina, Hawai\u2018i U.S. Representative Colleen Hanabusa (Inouye’s requested choice), and Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii Brian Schatz were selected for recommendation. To prevent a long vacancy during the United States fiscal cliff budget negotiations, Abercrombie made his decision quickly, per the request of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:[5] Schatz was chosen to fill Inouye’s seat until a special election in 2014.[6]Kia’\u0101ina was nominated by President Barack Obama to lead the Office of Insular Affairs as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas on September 11, 2013.  She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 26, 2014.[7][8] In May 2016, Obama designated Kia’\u0101ina to simultaneously to also serve as his White House representative for the 902 Consultations between the United States and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.[9] She resigned March 2017.[10]References[edit]External links[edit]Wikimedia ErrorOur servers are currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem.Please try again in a few\u00a0minutes.See the error message at the bottom of this page for more\u00a0information.      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