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 2000 / Active

Daniel R. Foley

Judge, Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals

Daniel R. Foley is a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals, serving since 2000. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of Minnesota. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–
2000	Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of San Francisco
University of San Francisco

Judicial Record

In our data, Foley authored 777 published opinions for the court (1983–2016), plus 46 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Kirby v. Kirby (77 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. 465 of these were attributed to Foley 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
1984	Kirby v. Kirby	348 N.W.2d 392	77
2007	Porter v. Hu	169 P.3d 994	75
1984	Eklund v. Vincent Brass and Aluminum Co.†	351 N.W.2d 371	69
2001	Medtronic, Inc. v. Advanced Bionics Corp.	630 N.W.2d 438	66
1984	Ostendorf v. Kenyon	347 N.W.2d 834	43
1984	Anderson v. DeLisle	352 N.W.2d 794	36
1984	National Recruiters, Inc. v. Toro Co.	343 N.W.2d 704	35
1984	State v. Thurmer	348 N.W.2d 776	29
1984	Edin v. Jostens, Inc.†	343 N.W.2d 691	28
1985	Marriage of Taflin v. Taflin	366 N.W.2d 315	27
1991	Andren v. White-Rodgers Co.	465 N.W.2d 102	26
1985	Bloomquist v. First National Bank of Elk River†	378 N.W.2d 81	26
1985	McCormick v. Custom Pools, Inc.· Dissent†	376 N.W.2d 471	26
1984	Kozak v. Commissioner of Public Safety†	359 N.W.2d 625	26
1988	Stowman v. Carlson Companies, Inc.	430 N.W.2d 490	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 851 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 Daniel R. Foley on?: Daniel R. Foley is a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals.

Sources

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25 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).