Bernard

The Maui News

The Hawaii State Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Maui attorney Annalisa Bernard to a six-year term as a District Court judge in the 2nd Circuit, which encompasses Maui County.

Oahu Sen. Karl Rhoad, chairperson of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a news release Tuesday that her “experience as a public defender and a county prosecuting attorney will serve her well as a judge in the District Court of the Second Circuit.”

Bernard has been employed at Wong Leong Cuccia since 2021. Before that, she worked as a Maui County deputy prosecuting attorney from 2015 to 2021 and as a deputy public defender from 2005 to 2015.

She was a law clerk in the 1st Circuit for retired Judge Michael Town and Judge Derrick Chan from 2004 to 2005.

Bernard is a Maui native and a graduate of Seabury Hall. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Seattle University and her law degree from the William S. Richardson School of Law. She was admitted to the Hawaii State Bar in 2005.

She has been an active member of the Maui County Bar Association and the Hawaii State Bar Association. She also has been a Friends of the Children’s Justice Center board member and Parent Teacher Student Organization board member at Kamehameha Schools Maui.

Bernard was appointed by Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald on Aug. 4 to fill the vacancy left by Judge Kirstin Hamman.

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