Senator Tsutsui currently serves as the 12th Senate President of the State of Hawai‘i. He is the first Senate President from Maui as well as the youngest. Elected to the Senate in 2002 to represent Hawaii's 4th senatorial district, his previous leadership positions included the Vice Chair of Ways and Means and Majority Caucus Leader.
Born on August 9, 1971, Senator Tsutsui graduated from Maui High School in 1989 and received a B.A. from the University of Hawaiʻi in Economics in 1994. Outside of the Legislature, Senator Tsutsui is a Business Consultant for Atlas Insurance Agency, Inc. and has three daughters (Mikayla, Kaylee and Kenna) with his wife, the former Lyndelle Lee.