Hawaii Senate confirms Clare Connors as attorney general

State Attorney General Clare Connors won easy confirmation Monday in a 25-0 vote on the Senate floor.

Gov. David Ige nominated Connors, 44, in January, and Senate Judiciary Chairman Karl Rhoads said no one opposed her nomination at her confirmation hearing April 10. The Hawaii attorney general is the top legal and law enforcement officer for the state.

Connors has worked as an attorney at Honolulu’s Davis Levin Livingston.

She was also an assistant U.S. attorney for seven years, representing the federal government prosecuting fraud, child exploitation crimes and other felony offenses.

Former President Barack Obama nominated Connors to be a federal judge in Hawaii in 2015, but the Senate never voted on her nomination. The position was later filled by Jill Otake, who was nominated by President Donald Trump.