How do judges of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals / Joined 2004 / Active

Alexa Fujise

Judge, Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals

Alexa Fujise is a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals, serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fujise authored 21 published opinions for the court (2004–2017), plus 1 dissent and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. DeMello (12 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 16 of these were attributed to Fujise by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2013	State v. DeMello†	130 Haw. 332	12
2005	Tax Appeal of Lewis v. Kawafuchi†	116 P.3d 711	6
2010	State v. Pratt· Concurrence†	243 P.3d 289	5
2010	State v. Walsh.· Concurrence†	123 Haw. 284	4
2006	Tortorello v. Tortorello· Dissent†	145 P.3d 762	4
2004	Tanaka v. Department of Hawaiian Home Lands†	106 Haw. 246	4
2016	State v. Quiday· Concurrence†	138 Haw. 124	3
2015	State v. Cruz†	135 Haw. 294	3
2011	State v. Walker†	128 Haw. 132	3
2011	State v. Forman	263 P.3d 127	3
2011	State v. Griffin†	126 Haw. 40	2
2011	Cabral v. State†	267 P.3d 676	2
2010	State v. Cooley	233 P.3d 713	2
2009	Si-Nor, Inc. v. Director, Department of Labor & Industrial Relations· Concurrence†	202 P.3d 596	2
2017	State v. Hilario†	139 Haw. 546	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 26 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Alexa Fujise on?: Alexa Fujise is a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals.

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22 years on the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).