STAND. COM. REP. NO. 900

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    GOV. MSG. NOS. 282, 283

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred Governor's Message Nos. 282 and 283, submitting for study and consideration the nomination of: 

 

Board of Directors of the Hawai'i Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HFD)

 

G.M. No. 282

FRANCIS L. JUNG,

for a term to expire 6-30-2009; and

 

G.M. No. 283

FRANCIS L. JUNG,

for a term to expire 6-30-2013,

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     Your Committee reviewed the personal history, resume, and statement submitted by the nominee, and finds Francis L. Jung to have the necessary qualifications to be appointed to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.

 

     Testimony in support of Francis L. Jung was submitted by two state agencies, one county agency, and one private organization.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Francis L. Jung has, since 1985, served as a Senior Member of Jung & Vassar, P.C., a law corporation with offices in Kailua‑Kona, Hawaii, and Washington, D.C., specializing in real estate, corporate, commercial, and international law.  He is also the Director and President of TKJ, Inc., a Hawaii nonprofit established in 2006 to render free legal counseling services to the public.  Mr. Jung's extensive legal career includes employment at law firms in Washington, D.C., and the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General.  He is a graduate of the University of Dayton, and holds a J.D. from the New England School of Law and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.  Mr. Jung is a member of the Hawaii State Bar Association and West Hawaii Bar Association, and he served on the Kona Community Hospital Advisory Committee and the West Hawaii Hospital Management Advisory Committee.  He also served as a Director of the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii, a predecessor to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, from 2003 to 2006.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committee, after full consideration of the background, experience, and qualifications of the nominee, has found the nominee to be qualified for the position to which nominated and recommends that the Senate advise and consent to the nomination.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Housing,

 

 

 

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair