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 1999 / Active

John S.W. Lim

Judge, Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals

John S.W. Lim is a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Harvard University
Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lim authored 52 published opinions for the court (1999–2007), plus 6 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Wittig v. Allianz, A.G. (17 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. 45 of these were attributed to Lim 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
2006	Wittig v. Allianz, A.G.	145 P.3d 738	17
2004	State v. Miller	98 P.3d 265	17
1999	Child Support Enforcement Agency v. Doe· Dissent†	990 P.2d 1158	15
2000	State v. Riveira†	993 P.2d 580	13
2005	State v. Escobido-Ortiz	126 P.3d 402	11
2000	State v. Keomany†	34 P.3d 1039	10
2004	State v. Bermisa· Concurrence†	90 P.3d 1256	9
2001	Davenport v. City & County of Honolulu†	100 Haw. 297	9
2001	State v. Johnson†	96 Haw. 462	9
2006	State v. Swanson	145 P.3d 886	8
2004	Kaopuiki v. Kealoha· Concurrence†	87 P.3d 910	7
2004	In re the Guardianship of Doe†	106 Haw. 75	6
2002	Associates Financial Services Co. of Hawaii, Inc. v. Richardson· Dissent†	56 P.3d 748	6
2002	State v. Yamamoto†	98 Haw. 208	6
2005	State v. Birano	126 P.3d 370	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 60 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 John S.W. Lim on?: John S.W. Lim is a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals.

Sources

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27 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).