Josh Green is a Democratic politician, physician, and Hawaii's ninth Governor, serving statewide since December 2022. Born February 11, 1970, in Kingston, New York, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he is a husband and father who has focused his career on healthcare, affordability, and crisis response. Notable achievements include securing health insurance for every child in Hawaii, passing “Luke’s Law” for autism coverage, creating the Cancer Research Center, raising the tobacco purchase age to 21, establishing a statewide trauma system, leading homelessness initiatives like “kauhale” villages and the H4 clinic, vaccinating 37,000 in Samoa during a measles outbreak, achieving Hawaii's lowest national COVID-19 fatality rate as healthcare liaison, and enacting the state's largest income tax cut.

Education and Political Experience

• Education: Earned degrees in biology and anthropology from Swarthmore College; Doctor of Medicine from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center; completed Family Practice residency.
• Early Career: Practiced emergency and family medicine in rural Ka‘ū on Hawaii Island via National Health Service Corps; twice named Physician of the Year by Hawaii Medical Association .
• Political Experience: Hawaii House of Representatives ; Hawaii State Senate ; Lieutenant Governor ; Governor .