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Jobie Yamaguchi is the assistant to the president and chief executive officer at The Queen's Health Systems. Ms. Yamaguchi's primary role in this position is to develop and implement a system-wide plan that articulates and demonstrates QHS’ commitment to Native Hawaiian health.
Ms. Yamaguchi is a 1982 honors graduate of the Kamehameha Schools. In 1986, she graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor of science degree in education; and in 1989, completed her graduate work at Princeton University, receiving a master's degree in public affairs/urban and regional planning.
She started her professional life working in the federal government as a budget examiner in the Housing Branch at the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President in Washington, D.C. In 1990, she returned home to Hawai'i, taking a position at the Kamehameha Schools as a land investment analyst. After two and a half years at the Kamehameha Schools, Ms. Yamaguchi accepted a position at the Hawai'i Real Estate Research and Education Center where she managed a $400,000 federal research grant given to the center to study residential leasehold issues.
In 1995, Governor Benjamin Cayetano appointed Ms. Yamaguchi to the cabinet-level position of deputy to the chairman of the Hawaiian Homes Commission. As the deputy to the chairman, Ms. Yamaguchi took the lead on a series of high-profile special projects while managing the day to day operations of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands as part of the chairman’s office team.
Ms. Yamaguchi has served as a member of the Affordable Housing Advisory Council of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, and the U.S. Census Racial and Ethnic Advisory Committee for the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders Population. She is currently a board member for the Hawai'i Technology Institute.
Ms. Yamaguchi was born and raised in Kailua, Oahu. Her interests include hula, the study of the Hawaiian language, and traveling. She is married to Chris K. Yamaguchi and is the mother of a six-year old daughter, Pomaikai, and a one-year old son, Kalakea. | 