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 1961 / Served to 1968

Jack Mizuha

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Jack Mizuha was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–1986
Tenure: 1961–1968 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mizuha authored 26 published opinions for the court (1961–1968), plus 18 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Texeira (106 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. 50 of these were attributed to Mizuha 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
1967	State v. Texeira· Dissent†	433 P.2d 593	106
1966	Kawamoto v. Yasutake†	410 P.2d 976	49
1967	State v. Kekaualua†	433 P.2d 131	46
1963	Young v. Price· Dissent†	388 P.2d 203	44
1963	In Re the Estate of Campbell· Concurrence†	382 P.2d 920	44
1968	Johnston v. Ing†	441 P.2d 138	42
1961	In Re Appeal of Goodfader· Dissent†	367 P.2d 472	36
1966	Cozine v. Hawaiian Catamaran, Ltd.· Concurrence†	412 P.2d 669	33
1962	Kealoha v. Tanaka†	370 P.2d 468	33
1963	State v. Shon· Dissent†	385 P.2d 830	32
1964	Franco v. Fujimoto· Concurrence†	390 P.2d 740	31
1963	Filipino Federation of America, Inc. v. Cubico†	380 P.2d 488	31
1968	Meadow Gold Dairies-Hawaii, Ltd. v. Wiig†	437 P.2d 317	30
1964	State v. Kitashiro· Concurrence†	397 P.2d 558	26
1968	State v. Bunn· Dissent†	440 P.2d 528	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 50 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 Jack Mizuha on?: Jack Mizuha was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Sources

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7 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).