---
type: Person
title: "Ron Kouchi"
description: "HI Senate District 8 — HI State Senate District 8"
role: "HI Senate District 8"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "HI"
district: "HI State Senate District 8"
represents: "us/states/hi/districts/senate/8"
tenure:
  start: "2012-11-06"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "b9ab60ee-c3ab-4741-b069-1caca491c6a1"
  office: "c66ce978-3296-431c-8d58-65160c304b59"
  tenure: "5d0acf69-f53e-4283-b0c4-769f4f91cec4"
  jurisdiction: "0f2aba21-941b-41ae-8301-cab8fbee48bc"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, hi]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Ron Kouchi

Current HI Senate District 8 (HI State Senate District 8).

Represents [HI State Senate District 8](/us/states/hi/districts/senate/8.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).