Susan Oki Mollway

Susan Oki Mollway (born November 6, 1950) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the first East Asian woman ever appointed to a life-time position on the federal bench. Early life and education Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Susan Oki Mollway earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1971 and a Master of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1973. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1981, where she was the Editor in Chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review In 2020, Mollway received her Master of Laws in judicial studies from Duke University School of Law. Personal She has a son. Professional career Mollway taught English and worked at an English-language publisher in Tokyo from 1975 to 1977. After law school, she worked in private legal practice at Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright in Honolulu from 1981 until 1998, when she joined the federal bench She became a partner at that law firm in 1986. She served as an adjunct instructor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1988 to 1989.