Luella Toledo Costales is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives.
[4] Costales previously served as executive director of the Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau Federation[3] and the Filipino Community Center in Waipahu.
[6] She resigned in 2017 in protest over a lack of gender, ethnic, and work background diversity on a consultant-selected panel reviewing candidates for a new police chief to replace Louis Kealoha.
[7] Governor David Ige appointed Costales to fill the 39th district seat left vacant after incumbent Representative Ty Cullen resigned due to pleading guilty to federal bribery charges.
[8] Costales did not run for a full term in the 2022 Hawaiʻi House of Representatives election,[9] and she was succeeded by Republican Elijah Pierick.