List of presidents of the Hawaii Senate

The president of the Hawaii Senate is the presiding officer of the upper chamber of the Hawaii Territorial and Hawaii State Legislature.

Territorial Senate
Name Period
Nicholas Russell 1901
Samuel E. Kaiue 1901
Clarence L. Crabbe 1902–1904
D. Paul R. Isenberg 1905
E. Faxon Bishop 1907
William Owen Smith 1909
Eric Alfred Knudsen 1911–1913
Charles F. Chillingworth 1915–1921
Lawrence M. Judd 1923
Robert W. Shingle 1925–1932
George P. Cooke 1933–1935
Harry A. Baldwin 1937
George P. Cooke 1939–1941
Harold W. Rice 1943
Eugene S. Capellas 1945
Clement Gomes 1947
Wilfred C. Tsukiyama 1949–1954
William H. Heen 1955–1957
Herbert K. H. Lee 1959

After statehood
Sen. Name Party Term of service
1st William H. Hill Republican 1959–1962
2nd Nelson K. Doi Democratic 1963–1964
3rd Kazuhisa Abe 1965–1966
4th John J. Hulten 1967–1968
5th David C. McClung 1969–1974
6th John T. Ushijima 1975–1978
7th Richard S. H. Wong 1979 – December 1992
8th James Aki December 1992 – May 1993
9th Norman Mizuguchi May 1993 – December 2000
10th Robert Bunda December 2000 – January 2, 2009
11th Colleen Hanabusa January 2, 2009 – November 6, 2010
12th Shan Tsutsui November 6, 2010 – December 27, 2012
13th Donna Mercado Kim December 28, 2012 – May 5, 2015
14th Ron Kouchi May 5, 2015 – present

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