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 1982 / Active

Harry T. Tanaka

Judge, Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals

Harry T. Tanaka is a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals, serving since 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1982 · 44 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Tanaka authored 128 published opinions for the court (1982–1991), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: Lussier v. Mau-Van Development, Inc. I (59 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. 128 of these were attributed to Tanaka 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
1983	Lussier v. Mau-Van Development, Inc. I†	667 P.2d 804	59
1985	Eastern Star, Inc. v. Union Building Materials Corp.†	712 P.2d 1148	55
1983	Outdoor Circle v. Harold K.L. Castle Trust Estate†	675 P.2d 784	44
1984	Hong v. Kong	683 P.2d 833	37
1982	Rosa v. Johnston†	651 P.2d 1228	35
1982	Bank of Honolulu, NA v. Anderson†	654 P.2d 1370	33
1990	Matter of Herbert M. Dowsett Trust†	791 P.2d 398	32
1983	Rosa v. CWJ Contractors, Ltd.†	664 P.2d 745	31
1983	State v. Medeiros· Concurrence†	665 P.2d 181	30
1985	Burgess v. Arita†	704 P.2d 930	29
1987	State v. Souza†	732 P.2d 253	26
1983	The Nature Conservancy v. Nakila†	671 P.2d 1025	25
1983	Almeida v. Almeida†	669 P.2d 174	25
1990	Dillingham Investment Corp. v. Kunio Yokoyama Trust†	797 P.2d 1316	24
1990	W. H. Shipman, Ltd. v. Hawaiian Holiday Macadamia Nut Co.†	8 Haw. App. 354	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 130 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 Harry T. Tanaka on?: Harry T. Tanaka is a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals.

Sources

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44 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).