Alex I. Lichton, Ph.D.

Dr. Alex Lichton has been the Legislative Chair for the Hawaii Psychological Association (HPA) since 2021. In 2022 he became HPA's Political Action Committee Chair. He has served on HPA's Legislative Committee for 11 years, on the Board of Directors for three years (1999-2001) and on the Convention Committee for three years. Since 2008 he has worked as a forensic psychologist, conducting examinations of fitness to proceed, penal responsibility and dangerousness for state criminal courts throughout Hawaii. Between 2004 and 2008 he was Forensic Coordinator at Hawaii State Hospital, where he was a union steward with the Hawaii Government Employees Association. Dr. Lichton received a Ph.D. from the University of Akron in 1995 and is certified as a forensic examiner and substance abuse counselor by the Hawaii Department of Health. He has published articles on ethnic differences in the prediction of violence risk assessment, the effects of tape recording on personality assessment and analysis of religious variables in major adolescent journals.