Regent

James H. Q. Lee

A partner in the Honolulu law firm of Devens, Nakano, Saito, Lee, Wong and Ching, James H. Q. Lee has experience in the restaurant industry. He served as managing director of Let’s Eat Hawai‘i, owner and operator of Sam Choy’s Restaurants in Hawai‘i, Japan and Guam, and managing director of the K. B. Lee Corp., a real estate development company and owner and operator of the Hee Hing Restaurant.

Lee has served as president of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Honolulu and chair of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Foundation. He is very involved with school activities at ‘Iolani School and has chaired the school’s family fair.

Born in Honolulu, Lee graduated from ‘Iolani School in 1974. He received his BBA in accounting from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in 1978 and JD from UH Manoa’s William S. Richardson School of Law in 1981. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant as well as a licensed attorney.

He and his wife Vickie, a school teacher, have two children, Charles and Jamie.