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Ms. Donna Tanoue, Esq.

Palo Alto, CA and Honolulu, HI
Board of Trustees, U.S.-Japan Foundation
Former Fellow, Distinguished Careers Institute, Stanford University

Donna Tanoue is the former Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Washington, D.C. Donna is the only person of color to have led the FDIC, the independent agency that works to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system by insuring deposits, examining and supervising financial institutions, working to make large and complex financial institutions resolvable, and managing receiverships. During the Obama administration, she was appointed to serve on the inaugural Consumer Advisory Board of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Subsequent to the FDIC, she served as Vice Chairman of Bank of Hawaii and Bank of Hawaii Corporation (NYSE: BOH) and a member of Bank of Hawaii’s Managing Committee, the executive team responsible for the bank’s strategic direction. She was also a member of Bank of Hawaii’s Board of Directors, and President of Bank of Hawaii Foundation. Previously, she was a partner with the Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel law firm in Hawaii, and Commissioner of Financial Institutions for the State of Hawaii.

She served on the boards of Longs Drug Stores Corporation, Walnut Creek, CA (NYSE: LDG, prior to the sale to CVS Corp.) and Kaneohe Ranch Management, Ltd., which manages real estate owned by the family of Harold K.L. Castle and Alice H. Castle, and their nonprofit charitable foundation, the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation. She also served on the boards of The Queen’s Health Systems, Honolulu, HI, Hawaii Community Foundation, University of Hawaii, and PBS, Arlington, VA.

Donna earned her B.A. from University of Hawaii and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. For the past two years, Donna has been a Fellow with the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford University, where she studied emerging issues relating to technology and international relations, with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region.