 Despite her mixed racial ancestry, Ohi was detained following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.She was released due to the assistance of Arthur Goldberg, Esq., the attorney she was working for as a legal secretary, who would go onto to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.After a stint as an Ensign in the United States Navy, Ohi relocated to Washington D.C. where she would find employment as an attorney at the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Department of Labor.