Navigating Bias: Ambition and Finding Your Professional Voice

  • May 31, 2019
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • 700 Bishop Street, TOPA Financial Tower, 17th Floor (Hawaii Leadership Forum)

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Navigating Bias: 

Ambition and Finding

Your Professional Voice

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Please join us for a panel discussion featuring Intermediate Court of Appeals Chief Judge Lisa M. Ginoza, Sarah O. Wang, Esq., and Judith Ann Pavey, Esq. on how gender bias and other biases affect women in the legal profession.  Panelists will share personal perspectives on such issues as:

  • Observed bias between or regarding women of different generations
  • Societal ambivalence toward women in positions of authority
  • The relationship between one's professional style and gendered expectations
  • How to address explicit and implicit bias in the workplace

The discussion will be moderated by Deirdre Marie-Iha, Esq. and Claire Wong Black, Esq.


This event has been approved for 1 CLE Ethics credit.

Location: 700 Bishop Street, TOPA Financial Tower, 17th Floor (Hawaii Leadership Forum)

Date:  Friday, May 31, 2019

Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm

Cost:  Free

Register here.  Please register by May 24, 2019.

Free free to bring your own lunch and drink.

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Lisa M. Ginoza was sworn in as Chief Judge of the Intermediate Court of Appeals on April 24, 2018.

Prior to being appointed to her current position, she was appointed as an Associate Judge of the Intermediate Court of Appeals on May 6, 2010.  A graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law, Judge Ginoza served as a law clerk to the Honorable Samuel P. King, Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii. She then entered private practice with the law firm of McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon, where she became a partner and over the course of fourteen years had an extensive civil litigation practice.

In January 2005, Judge Ginoza was appointed to serve as First Deputy Attorney General for the State of Hawaii. She served in this position until her appointment to the Intermediate Court of Appeals in 2010.

Judge Ginoza is a Kailua High School graduate and received her undergraduate degree from Oregon State University, with highest distinction. She has served as an Adjunct Professor in Appellate Advocacy at the William S. Richardson School of Law.



Sarah O. Wang joined Marr Jones & Wang in April 1998 and was made a partner in January 2001. She has considerable experience in both employment litigation and training employers to better manage their workforce.

Ms. Wang represents management in a wide range of labor and employment matters, including federal and state court litigation of wrongful termination, harassment, reasonable accommodation, breach of contract and other employment claims; discrimination and harassment cases pending before administrative agencies; union arbitrations and airline System Boards of Adjustment; wage and hour audits and other administrative proceedings; and federal and state appellate cases.

Ms. Wang also devotes a substantial amount of her practice to providing training and advising employers and their supervisory employees in managing personnel issues and in complying with various employment laws. She helps employers develop and implement policies to effectively manage their workforce. Ms. Wang is a frequent speaker at labor and employment law seminars on topics such as discrimination and harassment, employee privacy, internal investigations, reasonable accommodation obligations, and wage and hour laws.

Ms. Wang graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was a Notes Editor for the Virginia Law Review. Following law school, Ms. Wang was a law clerk to the late Honorable Charles E. Wiggins on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Ms. Wang returned to Hawaii in 1995 after her clerkship and began her career in private practice with Cades Schutte LLP, where she focused on commercial litigation, including employment law matters.

Ms. Wang is admitted to practice law in the state and federal courts in Hawaii, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and D.C. Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Wang has been selected for inclusion in the 12th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America and she has been listed in the Chambers USA directory, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, since 2004.



Judith Ann Pavey has over 40 years of experience in litigation and litigation related alternative dispute resolution. She began her litigation career while still in law school where she received a special certification from the Indiana Supreme Court to act as a prosecutor on criminal cases in Marion County juvenile, misdemeanor and felony courts. Upon graduation she was hired by a high-profile litigator in Hawai‘i, where she established her reputation as a skilled and successful lawyer in criminal, personal injury and other civil litigation matters.  After 7 years, in 1985 Ms. Pavey started her own firm and continued to focus primarily on plaintiffs’ personal injury cases, including those involving medical/legal malpractice and defective products causing substantial physical and/or economic damages. She also continued to handle selected criminal, wrongful termination and sexual harassment cases and worked on construction and contract litigation as well.

Ms. Pavey was one of the lead litigators representing minority shareholders in a closely held corporation involving a federally regulated institution in which both direct and derivative claims were prosecuted. That was successfully resolved in 2008.  That lawsuit brought her to Starn O’Toole Marcus & Fisher in September 2008 where she continues to work on commercial and corporate litigation matters, as well as professional negligence cases involving serious physical and economic damages.

Ms. Pavey has been recognized in both commercial litigation and personal injury practice areas.