page_title: List of Punahou School alumni
section_title: Presidential appointees
hierarchical_section_title: List of Punahou School alumni / Other elected representatives, government appointees, judges / Presidential appointees
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of William Charles Achi, Jr., Hawaiian territorial judge.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable graduates, students who attended, and former faculty of Punahou School. An asterisk indicates a person who attended Punahou but did not graduate with senior class. Parents and children of alumni are noted only if they have made significant achievements in the same field or activity.
  Numerous athletic, educational, cultural, business, and government leaders of significance to the State of Hawaii have been excluded, as well as most University of Hawaii and other State of Hawaii educators, and Hawaii-based entertainers, and artists.
context_section_description: 1864 Sanford Dole (Williams)—appointed first Territorial Governor of Hawaii and Federal Judge by William McKinley
  1881 Walter Frear (Yale)—appointed third Territorial Governor of Hawaii and Federal Judge by Theodore Roosevelt
  1896 William Castle, Jr. (Harvard)—Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Japan under Calvin Coolidge, Undersecretary of State for Herbert Hoover, Harvard Board of Overseers
  1905 Lawrence M. Judd (Penn)—appointed Seventh Territorial Governor of Hawaii by Herbert Hoover
  1908 William Charles Achi, Jr. (Stanford)—appointed Territorial Judge by Woodrow Wilson
  '33 Samuel Pailthorpe King (Yale)—appointed Federal Judge by Richard Nixon
  '47 John M. Steadman (Yale)—appointed judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals by Ronald Reagan
  '50 Alan Cooke Kay (Princeton)—appointed Federal Judge by Ronald Reagan
  '51 Elinor G. Constable (Wellesley)—US Ambassador to Kenya nominated by Ronald Reagan
  '62 Wendy Lee Gramm (Wellesley)—Head of Commodity Futures Trading Commission for Ronald Reagan, his "favorite economist", disgraced Enron board member, spouse of Texas Republican Senator Phil Gramm
  '62 Terrence O'Donnell (Air Force Academy)—Deputy Special Assistant to Richard Nixon and Special Assistant to Gerald Ford, General Counsel, Department of Defense, Executive VP of Textron
  '64 Jonathan Jay Healy (Williams)—Massachusetts state legislator and State Commissioner of Food and Agriculture, appointed USDA regional director by Barack Obama
  '65 Robert G. Klein (Stanford)—Hawaii Supreme Court Judge appointed Federal Judge by Bill Clinton (withdrawn)
  '66 Nanci Langley (USC)—Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission, appointed by George W. Bush
  '68 Christopher Ryan Henry (Annapolis)—VP of Science Applications International Corporation and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for George W. Bush
  '71 Michael Liu (Stanford)—HUD Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing (2001–2005) appointed by George W. Bush
  '75 Robert Stephen Silberman (Dartmouth)—Assistant Secretary of the Army for George H. W. Bush, President of CalEnergy, CEO of Strayer Education
  '78 Pamela Hamamoto (Stanford)—Permanent US Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, appointed by Barack Obama
caption: Honorable Judge William Charles Achi, Jr., Territorial Judge
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