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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Hawaii / Joined 1947 / Served to 1955

L. Le Baron

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

L. Le Baron was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1947–1955 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Baron authored 111 published opinions for the court (1939–1955), plus 6 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Estate Bernice P. Bishop (34 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. 4 of these were attributed to Baron 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
1943	Estate Bernice P. Bishop· Concurrence	36 Haw. 403	34
1946	Vasconcellos v. Juarez	37 Haw. 364	27
1951	Coney v. Lihue Plantation Co., Ltd.	39 Haw. 129	23
1939	O'Brien v. Walker	35 Haw. 104	23
1944	Territory of Hawaii v. Koa Gora	37 Haw. 1	22
1942	Molokai Ranch, Ltd. v. Morris	36 Haw. 219	21
1954	James W. Glover, Ltd. v. Fong	40 Haw. 503	17
1942	Territory of Hawaii v. Alcosiba	36 Haw. 231	17
1952	James W. Glover, Ltd. v. Fong	39 Haw. 308	16
1945	Territory of Hawaii v. Kogami	37 Haw. 174	16
1949	George Hess v. Sam Paulo, Sr.	38 Haw. 279	13
1951	In Re the Guardianship of Ward	39 Haw. 39	12
1947	Territory of Hawaii v. Kunimoto	37 Haw. 591	12
1943	Territory of Hawaii v. Chong	36 Haw. 537	12
1942	Marks v. Waiahole Water Co.	36 Haw. 188	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 122 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 L. Le Baron on?: L. Le Baron was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

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8 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).