GOVERNOR ATTENDS SWEARING-IN CEREMONY FOR JUDGES RECKTENWALD AND KIM

April 30 - "There are good days and there are great days.  All of us [in the state of Hawai`i] are better off with these two appointments," Governor Lingle said at the swearing-in ceremony for Mark E. Recktenwald as Chief Judge of the Intermediate Court of Appeals and Glenn J. Kim as Judge of the Circuit Court of the First Circuit. Judge Recktenwald served as the director of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs since January 2003. During his tenure he has focused on expanding protections against identity theft and enforcing Hawai‘i’s consumer protection laws, including guarding against unfair and deceptive trade and business practices, and insurance and securities fraud.  He also worked to make the department more accessible to the public by expanding on-line services. Judge Kim was previously the deputy prosecuting attorney with the City and County of Honolulu’s Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, which he first joined in 1993.  He also served as supervisor of the department’s Domestic Violence Misdemeanor and Felony Units and as a felony trial attorney with the Career Criminal and Domestic Violence Units.