Awards and Recognition

• Partner in Education Award, Achieve3000 (2018)
• Light of the Orient Award, Korean American Foundation of Hawaii (2015)
• Legislator of the Year, Hawaii Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association Legislator of the Year (2014)
• Legislator of the Year for the Friends of the Library of Hawaii (2012)
• Distinguished Honoree by Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation (2012)
• Outstanding City and County Administrator, American Society for Public Administration (1997)
• Outstanding Alumni Award, Farrington High School (1997)
• Hawai‘i Jaycee's Three Outstanding Young Persons (1988)