Sabrina McKenna

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Sabrina S. McKenna is an Associate Justice of the Hawai’i State Supreme Court. After attending the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa on a basketball scholarship as an early beneficiary of Title IX, she received a J.D. from UH’s William S. Richardson School of Law. McKenna started her career in private practice, then served as general counsel to Otaka, Inc. She was an assistant professor at Richardson before being appointed to the bench in 1993. McKenna co-chaired the Hawai’i Supreme Court’s Committee on Equality and Access to the Courts and the Committee on Court Interpreters and Language Access. She was involved in the inclusion of gender identity and gender expression as protected categories in the judiciary’s anti-bias and harassment policies and in the inclusion of gender identity and gender expression as additional categories for which judicial bias or prejudice is prohibited under Hawaii’s version of Rule 2.3 of the Revised Code of Judicial Conduct. McKenna is currently working to make the Hawai’i court rules and jury instructions non-binary and now makes her opinions non-binary

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