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 Linda Hamilton Krieger
Commissioner (term 2011-2015)
Linda Hamilton Krieger grew up in Hawai‘i and returned home in 2007 to join the faculty at the William S. Richardson School of Law as a Professor of Law and Director of the Ulu Lehua Scholars Program. Professor Krieger received a BA degree from Stanford University and is a graduate of New York University Law School. Prior to teaching, Professor Krieger worked for 13 years as a civil rights lawyer. From 1980-1986 she was a Staff Attorney and Director of Clinical Programs at the Employment Law Center of the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, and from 1985-1991 she was a Senior Staff Attorney for the EEOC, San Francisco Regional Office. During that period, she litigated a number of significant state and federal sex and race discrimination cases in the areas of pregnancy discrimination and sexual harassment. She also played a significant role in drafting state and federal legislation in these subject matter areas. Professor Krieger has also published numerous articles on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, disability discrimination, affirmative action, international comparative equality law and policy, and theories of law and social change.
 Raymund Liongson
Commissioner, (term 2011-2015)
Raymund Liongson is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Philippine Studies Program at Leeward Community College and the director of Sulong Aral, a program funded by the U.S. Department of Education to help students of Filipino ancestry finish college. He is a board member of the Filipino Community Center, and is also a member and past president of the Filipino Coalition for Solidarity, an advocacy group for Filipino American W.W. II veterans, immigrants and workers in the areas of discrimination, language access, domestic violence and sexual harassment. In 2010, Professor Liongson spearheaded Filipino census fairs in Waipahu and Kalihi to encourage those communities to participate in the 2010 census. In 2009, he was part of a fact-finding commission to investigate labor and management practices at the Pacific Beach Hotel and has been active in promoting job security, wage increases and better benefits for Filipino hotel workers. Professor Liongson received his M.A. in education from Northwestern University in the Philippines and Ph.D. in education from the University of the Philippines.
 Jonathan L. Ortiz
Commissioner, (term 2008-2012)
Jonathan
Ortiz is a director in the law firm of Ortiz & Katano. He practices in the areas of personal
injury, products liability,
construction defects, professional malpractice and insurance fraud litigation. Prior to going into private practice,
Mr. Ortiz was General Counsel for the State of Hawai‘i Organization of Police
Officers, a Deputy Public Defender, and a law clerk for the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission. Mr. Ortiz is a member
of the American Inns of Court, the Defense Research Institute and the Community
Associations Institute. He is also
past president of the United Puerto Rican Association and Pearl City Little
League.
Mr.
Ortiz was born in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
He is a graduate of Castle High School, received his BA in Political
Science from the University of Hawai‘i, and his Juris Doctorate from George
Washington University Law School.
 Les Ueoka
Commissioner, (terms 2005-2008, 2008-2012)
Les Ueoka is Assistant General Counsel for Hawaiian Telcom, formerly known as Verizon Hawaii and GTE Hawaiian Tel, prior to which he was in private practice. Currently Mr. Ueoka is serving his second four-year term as a commissioner on the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission. He strongly supports the Commission’s educational outreach efforts, including its annual Pono art and video contest championed by former commissioner Sara Banks. He also has advocated to enhance the Commission’s research and policy review efforts.
Mr. Ueoka serves on the Oahu Metro Board of the American Heart Association. In 2007 Mr. Ueoka was awarded the Association’s Impact Award, the highest award given annually to an individual, group, corporation or foundation that serves admirably, exhibits an earnest devotion to and has made a remarkable impact on the mission of the Association. Mr. Ueoka serves as a trustee, and was formerly the director of development, of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team Foundation and is a member of the Sons and Daughters Chapter of the 442nd Veterans Club. In addition Mr. Ueoka is a director and vice president of Hawaii Opera Theatre and has served as a director of Gregory House Programs and as an Assistant Scoutmaster to Troop 325, Aloha Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Mr. Ueoka was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and graduated from Iolani School. He received his BA in English from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and his Juris Doctor from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
 Mark G. Valencia
Commissioner, (term 2008-2013)
Mark G. Valencia is a director in the law firm of Case Lombardi & Pettit. His practice includes both plaintiff and defense work in contract, insurance, tort, construction, land use, appellate, product liability, and employment cases.
In addition, Mr. Valencia teaches law as an adjunct professor at Hawaii Pacific University. He is also active in the community, volunteering with the Read Aloud America Program, serving as a longtime member of the Kuakini Medical Center Ethics Committee, and is an annual participant in the Professionals for Drug Free Kids Project.
Before joining Case Lombardi & Pettit in 2005, Mr. Valencia served as a policy analyst for Governor Linda Lingle, an attorney in private practice, a law clerk to former Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals Judge Walter Kirimitsu, and as a Sergeant in the United States Army.
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