Regent

Michael A. Dahilig

After serving three years as the student regent, Michael A. Dahilig was re-appointed to a term as an at-large regent in 2009.

Dahilig is a former Associated Students of the University of Hawai‘i president and member of the UH Manoa Campus Center Board. He received Manoa’s 2003 Student Service and Leadership Distinction Award and the United Filipino Council of Hawai‘i’s 2007 Outstanding Youth award. He serves on the boards of the Hawai‘i Filipino Lawyers Association, National Federation of Filipino American Associations, Sariling Gawa Youth Foundation and the Kaua‘i Filipino Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Pacific Century Fellows Class of 2012.

Currently serving as director of planning for the County of Kaua‘i, Dahilig also served as an attorney with the Kaua‘i county attorney’s office. He prevously served as law clerk with the Hon. Randal G. B. Valenciano of the Fifth Circuit Court of the State of Hawai‘i and worked as an urban planner in the private sector.

A member of the Hawai‘i Bar, Dahilig received his juris doctor with certification in environmental law from the William S. Richardson School of Law. He holds a master’s in urban and regional planning and a BS with honors in geology and geophysics from Manoa.