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 2014 / Active

Michael D. Wilson

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Michael D. Wilson is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilson authored 16 published opinions for the court (2014–2019), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Hungate v. Law Office of David B. Rosen (71 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. 18 of these were attributed to Wilson 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
2017	Hungate v. Law Office of David B. Rosen†	139 Haw. 394	71
2015	State v. Yong Shik Won· Concurrence†	137 Haw. 330	40
2016	Hussey v. Say.†	139 Haw. 181	31
2015	State v. Nofoa.†	135 Haw. 220	16
2016	Furuya v. Association of Apartment Owners of Pacific Monarch, Inc.†	137 Haw. 371	14
2016	State v. Abdon.†	137 Haw. 19	10
2016	'O Haleakalâ v. Board of Land & Natural Resources· Dissent†	138 Haw. 383	9
2015	Noel Madamba Contracting, LLC v. Romero.†	137 Haw. 1	9
2017	State v. Nakamitsu.†	140 Haw. 157	6
2015	State v. Reed.†	135 Haw. 381	6
2017	State v. Villena.†	140 Haw. 370	5
2016	State v. Subia.†	139 Haw. 62	5
2015	St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.†	135 Haw. 449	5
2014	Kawakami v. Kahala Hotel Investors, LLC.†	134 Haw. 352	4
2019	State v. Brown.†	145 Haw. 56	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 18 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 is Michael D. Wilson on?: Michael D. Wilson is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Sources

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12 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).