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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Hawaii / Joined 1959 / Served to 1967

Rhoda Lewis

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Rhoda Lewis was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1991
Tenure: 1959–1967 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lewis authored 33 published opinions for the court (1960–1967), plus 7 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Taylor (46 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. 46 of these were attributed to Lewis 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
1967	State v. Taylor†	425 P.2d 1014	46
1963	In Re the Estate of Campbell†	382 P.2d 920	44
1964	Richards v. Midkiff· Concurrence†	396 P.2d 49	41
1961	In Re Appeal of Goodfader· Concurrence†	367 P.2d 472	36
1960	State v. Foster· Concurrence†	354 P.2d 960	35
1966	Cozine v. Hawaiian Catamaran, Ltd.†	412 P.2d 669	33
1965	Bulatao v. Kauai Motors, Ltd.†	406 P.2d 887	33
1962	Kealoha v. Tanaka· Dissent†	370 P.2d 468	33
1963	State v. Shon· Concurrence†	385 P.2d 830	32
1961	Rohlfing v. Moses Akiona, Ltd.†	369 P.2d 96	32
1964	Franco v. Fujimoto· Concurrence†	390 P.2d 740	31
1964	Peters v. Jamieson· Dissent†	397 P.2d 575	30
1961	State v. Yoshida†	361 P.2d 1032	28
1966	Kawauchi v. Tabata†	413 P.2d 221	27
1964	State v. Kitashiro†	397 P.2d 558	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 46 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 Rhoda Lewis on?: Rhoda Lewis 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).