Mazie Hirono made a career in public life at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Mazie Hirono as American lawyer and politician (born 1947).
Mazie Hirono was born at Koori in 1947. Her recorded nationality is the United States. She was educated at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Georgetown University Law Center.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
She worked as politician, lawyer and writer.
Political reputations are settled slowly, and rarely by the people who made them.
Her work was formally recognised with the Margaret Brent Award.
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Mazie Hirono is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Educated at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Georgetown University Law Center
- Worked as politician, lawyer and writer
