Biography

Makia coteaches the Family Law Clinic since 2018. He is managing attorney of the Family and Elder Law Division at the Legal Aid Society of Hawai‘i.  Before this he was a staff attorney at Legal Aid’s Leeward Office (Wai‘anae) from 2009 to 2016 and then senior attorney at the Windward Office (Kane‘ohe) until 2021.  He is on the Permanent Committee on Family Court Rules, the Committee to revise Chapter 587A Bench Book, and the Access to Justice Committee on Maximizing the Use of Available Resources for Separating and Divorcing Families in Hawaii.  He served on the Child Support Guidelines quadrennial review committee 2020 (HRS 576D).  Before joining Legal Aid, he clerked for Hon. Michael D. Wilson (Circuit Court, State of Hawaii).  In law school he externed with the Hon. Richard R. Clifton (9th Cir., Federal) and Earthjustice and worked at the Office on Equality and Access to the Courts.