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 2010 / Active

Lawrence M. Reifurth

Judge, Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals

Lawrence M. Reifurth is a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Reifurth authored 10 published opinions for the court (2010–2016), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Chen v. Hoeflinger (24 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. 12 of these were attributed to Reifurth 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
2012	Chen v. Hoeflinger†	127 Haw. 346	24
2014	NB v. GA†	133 Haw. 436	6
2013	Safeway, Inc. v. Nordic PCL Construction, Inc.†	130 Haw. 517	5
2013	Childs v. Harada†	130 Haw. 387	5
2012	Leis Family Ltd. Partnership v. Silversword Engineering†	126 Haw. 532	5
2014	Hollaway v. Hollaway†	133 Haw. 415	4
2013	Lahaina Fashions, Inc. v. Bank of Hawaii†	129 Haw. 250	4
2010	State v. Walsh.†	123 Haw. 284	4
2012	Cun-Lara v. State†	126 Haw. 541	3
2016	Home & Community Services of Hawai'i, Inc. v. Department of Labor & Industrial Relations· Concurrence†	137 Haw. 125	0
2015	Ramos v. Estate of Elsenbach· Dissent†	136 Haw. 357	0
2012	Kawauchi v. David†	129 Haw. 77	0

Showing the 12 most-cited of 12 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 Lawrence M. Reifurth on?: Lawrence M. Reifurth is a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals.

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16 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).