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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Hawaii / Joined 1974 / Served to 1983

Benjamin Menor

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Benjamin Menor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–1986
Tenure: 1974–1983 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Menor authored 68 published opinions for the court (1974–1983), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Earl M. Jorgensen Co. v. Mark Construction, Inc. (125 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. 72 of these were attributed to Menor 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
1975	Earl M. Jorgensen Co. v. Mark Construction, Inc.†	540 P.2d 978	125
1977	State v. Jendrusch†	567 P.2d 1242	113
1978	Food Pantry, Ltd. v. Waikiki Business Plaza, Inc.†	575 P.2d 869	99
1978	Honolulu Advertiser, Inc. v. Takao†	580 P.2d 58	94
1978	Gannett Pacific Corp. v. Richardson†	580 P.2d 49	87
1979	State v. Freitas†	602 P.2d 914	79
1977	State v. Barnes†	568 P.2d 1207	79
1978	Jenkins v. Wise†	574 P.2d 1337	74
1983	Ontai v. Straub Clinic & Hospital Inc.†	659 P.2d 734	70
1974	State v. Pokini· Concurrence†	526 P.2d 94	65
1980	State v. Naeole†	617 P.2d 820	57
1975	State v. Severino†	537 P.2d 1187	55
1976	Shinn v. Edwin Yee, Ltd.†	553 P.2d 733	54
1976	Palisbo v. Hawaiian Insurance & Guaranty Co., Ltd.†	547 P.2d 1350	54
1977	State v. Modica†	567 P.2d 420	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 72 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 Supreme Court of Hawaii reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Benjamin Menor on?: Benjamin Menor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Sources

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