Robert Charles Hogue (born September 7, 1953) is an American athletic conference commissioner, author and columnist, sportscaster, and a former Republican member of the Hawaii State Senate representing the 24th district (Kailua-Kaneohe) for six years (2000–2006). He was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Hawaii's 2nd congressional district, to replace Ed Case, but lost in the 2006 general election to former Lieutenant GovernorMazie Hirono. Hogue is currently the commissioner of the Pacific West Conference, a position he has held since 2007.
Hogue was born on September 7, 1953 in Whittier, California. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1975 where he played baseball and earned a degree in business with an emphasis in accounting. He earned his CPA certificate working for Price Waterhouse & Co. in southern California from 1975 to 1977.
Hogue was the head boys' basketball coach at Academy of the Pacific in Honolulu from 2004 to 2006 after earlier serving as head girls' basketball coach at St. Anthony's and Trinity Christian in Kailua. In 2007, he was named the commissioner of the Pacific West Conference, which is now the largest NCAADivision II conference in the west. In 2013, he was named to the DII Management Council and DII Membership Committee, serving a full year term on each committee until 2017. He currently chairs the Sports Administration committee for the DII Conference Commissioners Association.
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Hogue formerly served with Wayne Coito as host of PacWest Magazine television on OC-16 and www.thepacwest.com. Since 1988, he has written a weekly sports and recreation column, called "Keeping Score", for MidWeek magazine. He is a frequent contributor to other magazine publications. His first novel, Sands of Lanikai, published by Island Heritage, was released in late 2009. It is a historical fiction, mystery, and romance set in Kailua, Oahu around the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Sands of Lanikai was #1 on The Honolulu Advertiser bestseller list on November 29, 2009 and remained on the Advertiser bestseller list for the next several months. The novel was later nominated for a Po'okela Award for excellence in literature.
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