The appointment of Dee Jay Mailer to the interim CEO post at the troubled Bishop Museum is noteworthy because she has experience at the helm of an institution in a challenging transition.

The museum just went through a wrenching turnover of top leadership. Mailer was CEO at Kamehameha Schools from 2004 to 2014, starting a few years after the Honolulu Star-Bulletin’s “Broken Trust” series spawned a major overhaul there as well.

Let’s hope that Mailer’s perspective can help steady the ship.