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 1993 / Served to 2002

Mario R. Ramil

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Mario R. Ramil was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1993–2002 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Education

California State University-East Bay
UC Law San Francisco

Judicial Record

In our data, Ramil authored 68 published opinions for the court (1994–2002), plus 23 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Richie (243 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. 105 of these were attributed to Ramil 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
1998	State v. Richie†	960 P.2d 1227	243
2000	In Re Water Use Permit Applications· Dissent†	9 P.3d 409	218
1997	Kawamata Farms, Inc. v. United Agri Products· Concurrence†	948 P.2d 1055	195
2000	Dairy Road Partners v. Island Insurance Co.· Concurrence†	992 P.2d 93	157
1998	State v. Sawyer†	966 P.2d 637	150
2002	Association of Apartment Owners of Wailea Elua v. Wailea Resort Co.· Concurrence†	58 P.3d 608	145
1995	State v. Wells†	894 P.2d 70	134
1997	State v. Fukusaku†	946 P.2d 32	132
1995	State v. Lopez†	896 P.2d 889	110
1997	Keliipuleole v. Wilson†	941 P.2d 300	98
1997	Konno v. County of Hawai'i†	937 P.2d 397	98
1994	State v. Bowe†	881 P.2d 538	94
1996	Iddings v. Mee-Lee· Dissent†	919 P.2d 263	92
1999	State v. Dudoit· Dissent†	978 P.2d 700	87
2000	State v. Klinge· Concurrence†	994 P.2d 509	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 108 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 Mario R. Ramil on?: Mario R. Ramil was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Sources

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9 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).