How do judges of the Supreme Court of Hawaii reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Hawaii / Joined 1950 / Served to 1956

Edward Armstrong Towse

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Edward Armstrong Towse was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1973
Tenure: 1950–1956 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Towse authored 51 published opinions for the court (1950–1956), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Ginoza Ex Rel. Ginoza v. Takai (43 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. 3 of these were attributed to Towse 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
1955	Ginoza Ex Rel. Ginoza v. Takai	40 Haw. 691	43
1953	Shee v. London Guarantee & Accident Co.	40 Haw. 213	31
1952	Territory v. Ebarras.	39 Haw. 488	27
1955	Munoz v. Com'r. Pub. Lands	40 Haw. 675	21
1955	Schimmelfennig v. Grove Farm Co., Ltd.	41 Haw. 124	15
1953	Sung Wha Kim Lyu v. Shinn	40 Haw. 198	15
1951	Territory v. Martin	39 Haw. 100	15
1952	Territory v. Joaquin	39 Haw. 221	14
1950	Territory of Hawaii v. Caminos	38 Haw. 628	12
1956	Re Harriet Bouslog, an Attorney at Law· Dissent	41 Haw. 270	11
1955	Territory Ex Rel. Sylva v. Morita· Dissent	41 Haw. 1	11
1951	Fong, Auditor v. Sapienza, Judge	39 Haw. 79	11
1953	Territory of Hawaii v. Wong	40 Haw. 257	10
1956	Public Utilities Comm. v. Narimatsus.	41 Haw. 398	9
1950	Territory of Hawaii v. Abellana	38 Haw. 532	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 55 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 Edward Armstrong Towse on?: Edward Armstrong Towse was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

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6 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).