Dwight Takamine
| Dwight Y. Takamine | |
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| Hawaii Director of Labor and Industrial Relations | |
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Assumed office 2011 |
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| Member of the Hawaii Senate from the 1st district |
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In office 2008–2010 |
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| Preceded by | Lorraine Inouye |
| Succeeded by | Malama Solomon |
| Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from the 1st district |
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In office 1984–2008 |
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| Preceded by | Yoshito Takamine |
| Succeeded by | Mark Nakashima |
| Personal details | |
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January 29, 1953 Honokaʻa, Hawaii |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Residence | Laupahoehoe, Hawaii |
| Profession | attorney |
Dwight Y. Takamine (born January 29, 1953) is an Okinawan-American Hawaii state senator and state representative (1984–2007). A Democrat, he represents the first district on the island of Hawai'i.
Dwight, the eldest of five children, was born January 29, 1953 and raised in the plantation community of Honokaʻa to Yoshito and Kimiko Takamine. Yoshito Takamine served in the Hawaii State House of Representatives from 1959 to 1984. Dwight attended Honokaʻa Elementary School and Honokaʻa High School where he excelled both athletically and scholastically. In 1971, Dwight graduated High School as class valedictorian. Dwight went on to earn a bachelor's degree in psychology while participating in the ethnic studies program at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. Dwight subsequently studied law at UH and received his law degree from the William S. Richardson School of Law in 1978.
After graduating, Dwight began practicing law in Honolulu. In 1983, he opened his own law office in Hilo, Hawaii as his father Yoshito Takamine resigned after 26 years in the Hawaii House of Representatives. The younger Takamine took his father's seat in 1984. Dwight maintains a house in Laupahoehoe but usually lives in Honolulu with his second wife who is a school official there. He has continued to practice labor law focusing on workers' compensation cases. On behalf of the ILWU, whose ties to the Takamine's go back decades, Takamine has pushed a lumber mill in Oʻokala, and a wood-burning power plant in Paʻauilo. Local residents are against both proposals. Takamine and his father played a key role in the controversial 1980s Kamehameha Schools (formerly Bishop Estate) decision to buy the Hamakua Sugar Company lands and then plant them in eucalyptus. The story is recounted in Hawaii book "Broken Trust".
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