Lauren Matsumoto

Last updated

Scott Matsumoto
(m. 2013)
Lauren Matsumoto
Lauren Cheape for 45.jpg
Minority Leader of the Hawaii House of Representatives
Assumed office
November 8, 2022
Children2
Education University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (BA)
Hawaii Pacific University (MBA)
Website Official website

Lauren Kealohilani Cheape Matsumoto (born August 16, 1987) is an American politician and beauty pageant titleholder who currently serves as a member of the Hawaii State House from Hawaii's 38th District, previously the 45th District from 2012 to 2022. Matsumoto represents Schofield, Mokuleia, Waialua, Kunia, Waipio Acres, and her hometown of Mililani in the Hawaii State House of Representatives. She holds the title of Miss Hawaii 2011, and competed in the Miss America 2012 pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada. [1] She was born and raised in Mililani, Hawaii.

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Personal life

Matsumoto was born Lauren Kealohilani Cheape and raised in Mililani in Honolulu, where she attended Mililani Waena Elementary, was a member of the first class to attend Mililani Middle School, and graduated from Mililani High School.[ citation needed ] She participated in many activities, including the jump rope team, volleyball, swimming, water polo, and the symphonic ensemble.[ citation needed ]

Cheape graduated from University of Hawaiʻi Academy for Creative Media with a B.A. in film production and minored in both Business and Japanese. Her first experience with the legislature was with her documentary, Farm Grown, which helped pass the Feed Subsidy Bill. Cheape was a four-year Division I scholar-athlete at the University of Hawaiʻi as a Wahine Water Polo player. [2] She was also a member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee and initiated the C.A.R.E. (Collegiate Athletes Reaching Everyone) program, which uses student-athletes to encourage youth to excel in academics and participate in athletics. Cheape earned an MBA from Hawaii Pacific University in May 2015.

In July 2013, Cheape married Scott Matsumoto, a firefighter for the Honolulu Fire Department, and changed her name to Lauren Matsumoto. The pair met at their church, One Love, where they are active members. Their first child, Noah, was born in August 2017.[ citation needed ]

Beauty pageants

Matsumoto competed at Miss Hawaii 2011 as Miss East Oahu. Her talent was a jump rope routine, which she took up after seeing a jump rope team perform at her school. [3] Her platform is C.A.R.E.: Collegiate Athletes Reaching Everyone. [4] She won the Miss Hawaii title on her fourth try. She represented Hawaii at the National Sweetheart 2010 pageant, a spot she earned by placing 2nd runner-up to Miss Hawaii 2010. [5] She was named a Quality of Life Finalist and won the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Award for most money raised in the country, which benefited Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, at the Miss America 2012 pageant. [6]

Political career

Matsumoto ran a successful campaign for election in 2012 to the newly formed District 45 of the Hawaii State House on Oahu, Hawaii. District 45 comprises Matsumoto's hometown of Mililani as well as Schofield, Wheeler, Mokuleia, and Waialua. She ran unopposed in the primaries as a Republican candidate.

Matsumoto campaigned on expanding local agriculture, strengthening education, improving the local economy, and advocating for responsible environmental policies.[ citation needed ]

Matsumoto was hospitalized with occupational burnout for two weeks during her first term in office. [7]

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References

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Jalee Fuselier
Miss Hawaii
2011
Succeeded by
Skyler Kamaka
Hawaii House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives
from the 45th district

2012–2022
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives
from the 38th district

2022–present
Incumbent
Preceded by Minority Leader of the Hawaii House of Representatives
2022–present