Hawaii Governor Josh Green, M.D., appointed Gordon I. Ito as Insurance Commissioner effective December 16, 2022.  

He was previously appointed Insurance Commissioner by Governor Linda Lingle (July 2010), Governor Neil Abercrombie (January 2011) and Governor David Ige (January 2015).

Ito served as NAIC secretary-treasurer in 2018. He was a recipient of the Robert Dineen award in 2020.

Ito was chair of the NAIC Western Zone from 2013 to 2015; he also served as chair of the International Regulatory Cooperation (G) Working Group and the Information Systems Task Force (EX1).

Prior to his appointment, Ito served as chief deputy insurance commissioner from 2000 to 2010 and from 2019 to 2022. He was supervising attorney of the Insurance Division from 1993 to 2000.

Ito earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Hawaii and a law degree from the University of Hawaii’s William S. Richardson School of Law.