Suzanne Case

Suzanne Case, Executive Director: Suzanne Case has served as Executive Director of The Nature Conservancy of Hawai`i since 2001.  She oversees a staff of 80 people, preserves on six main Hawaiian islands and Palmyra Atoll, and an annual operating budget of $8.5 million. 

From 1987 to 2002, Case served as Legal Counsel for the Conservancy's Hawaii Program, the western United States, and internationally in the Asia/Pacific Region.  During her years at The Nature Conservancy she has overseen the acquisition of the 116,000-acre Kahuku Ranch addition to Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park, eight Hawaii Nature Conservancy preserves, Palmyra Atoll, new National Wildlife Refuges at Hakalau on the slopes of Mauna Kea and at O`ahu Forest, as well as the creation of watershed partnerships throughout the state.  In 2006 she served on Governor Lingle’s Economic Momentum Commission. 

Case was born in Hilo and attended Keaukaha Elementary School and Punahou School, where she was the first female student body president.  She attended Williams College and Stanford University, where she graduated with honors.  She received her law degree from Hastings College of the Law, University of California, San Francisco, where she was a member of the Hastings Law Journal.