Sunia served as the eighth lieutenant governor of American Samoa from April 11, 2003 to January 3, 2013.

[1] His family moved to Hawaii when he was a teenager, so Sunia graduated from President Theodore Roosevelt High School in Honolulu in 1962.

[1] Following his graduation from high school, Sunia attended Concord College, located in Athens, West Virginia, from 1962 until 1965.

[1] According to his official biography, Sunia is a member of the Lions Clubs International, Masons and the Shriners.

[1] Sunia returned to American Samoa, where he took a position as the territory's Assistant Attorney General from 1976 until 1978.

[1] Sunia further served on the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council for six year.

[2] Sunia was sworn into office as Lieutenant Governor on Friday, April 11, 2003, after he was confirmed by the American Samoan legislature earlier the same day.

[3] Sunia and American Samoa Senator Tini Lam Yuen were arrested and indicted in September 2007 in a federal corruption probe for awarding local United States Department of Education contracts.