Georgia McMillen

Georgia K. McMillen is a mediator serving parties throughout Hawaiʻi. She is widely respected for her ability to listen carefully, maintain focus, and guide parties toward durable, workable agreements.

Her mediation practice includes family law, divorce, child custody, and division of assets; business and commercial disputes; insurance and employment matters; real estate, quiet title, foreclosure, and condominium disputes; and trusts and estates. She served as a per diem judge for the Family and District Courts of Hawai'i. She completed advanced mediation studies at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University School of Law. After five years of sustained study and training sponsored by the Native Hawaiian Bar Association under the direction of Kumu Lynette Kaopuiki Paglinawan, she was recognized as a haku ho‘oponopono.

Georgia brings more than 35 years of legal experience to her mediation work, including extensive trial and appellate litigation in both state and federal courts in Hawai'i, New York and New Jersey. That experience has led to a clear conclusion: whenever possible, parties are best served by resolving disputes through confidential, party-controlled processes such as mediation, rather than litigation that is adversarial, public, costly, stressful, and ultimately decided by a judge or jury rather than the parties themselves.

She has served as a Lawyer Representative to the U.S. District Court for Hawaiʻi and as Appellate Lawyer Representative to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She has served on the boards of the Hawaiʻi State Bar Association and the Native Hawaiian Bar Association and regularly provides pro bono legal and mediation services.

She is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools, the University of Hawaiʻi, and New York Law School, and lives on Maui with her husband and five cats.