Background
GILLMOR, HELEN was born on October 9, 1942 in Syracuse, New York, United States.
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"Federal Power Commission Jurisdiction Over Wholesale Sales," 46 Boston University Law Review 552,1966. Lecturer in Law, International Legal Center, Seoul, Korea, 1969-1970. Law Clerk to Chief Justice William S. Richardson, Hawaii Supreme Court, 1972.
Per diem, Hawaii State District Court Judge, 1977-1985. Member, since 1974, Vice Chairperson, 1989-1990, and Chairperson, since 1990, Disciplinary Board, Hawaii Supreme Court.
Helen Gillmor
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Queens College of the City University of New York (Bachelor of Arts, 1965). Boston University (Bachelor of Laws, magna cum laude, 1968). Comment Editor, Boston University Law School Law Review, 19671968.
Career
Born in Syracuse, New York, Gillmor received a B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York in 1965, and an LL.B. from Boston University School of Law in 1968. Gillmor was in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts from 1968–1969, and in El Paso, Texas in 1969. She was a lecturer at the International Legal Center of the United States Agency for International Development, in Seoul, South Korea from 1969 to 1970, returning to private practice in Camden, Maine in 1970, and in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1971 to 1972, 1974 to 1977, and 1985 to 1994.
She was a law clerk to William Richardson, Chief Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court in 1972, a deputy public defender of the Honolulu Office of the Public Defender from 1972 to 1974, and a lecturer at the University of Hawaii in 1975. Gillmor was a district court judge of the Hawaii State Family Court, First Circuit from 1977 to 1983, and of the District Court of Hawaii for the same circuit from 1983 to 1985. On August 25, 1994, Gillmor was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii created by 104 Stat.
5089. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 7, 1994, and received her commission on October 11, 1994. She became chief judge in 2005. She assumed senior status on June 30, 2009.
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"Federal Power Commission Jurisdiction Over Wholesale Sales," 46 Boston University Law Review 552,1966. Lecturer in Law, International Legal Center, Seoul, Korea, 1969-1970. Law Clerk to Chief Justice William S. Richardson, Hawaii Supreme Court, 1972.
Per diem, Hawaii State District Court Judge, 1977-1985. Member, since 1974, Vice Chairperson, 1989-1990, and Chairperson, since 1990, Disciplinary Board, Hawaii Supreme Court.
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Membership
Hawaii State Bar Association (Treasurer, 1981. Vice president, 1983. Director, 1990-1991).
