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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Hawaii / Joined 2012 / Active

Richard W. Pollack

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Richard W. Pollack is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Education

University of California-Santa Barbara
UC Law San Francisco

Judicial Record

In our data, Pollack authored 87 published opinions for the court (2013–2019), plus 8 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Bank of America, N.A. v. Reyes-Toledo. (122 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. 100 of these were attributed to Pollack 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	Bank of America, N.A. v. Reyes-Toledo.†	139 Haw. 361	122
2016	Santiago v. Tanaka†	137 Haw. 137	65
2015	Mauna Kea Anaina Hou v. Board of Land & Natural Resources· Concurrence†	136 Haw. 376	51
2015	Kondaur Capital Corporation v. Matsuyoshi.†	136 Haw. 227	50
2013	Hawaiian Association of Seventh-Day Adventists v. Wong.· Dissent†	130 Haw. 36	49
2013	State v. Kaulia†	128 Haw. 479	49
2015	State v. Yong Shik Won†	137 Haw. 330	40
2014	Balogh v. Balogh· Concurrence†	134 Haw. 29	40
2014	Kauai Springs, Inc. v. Planning Commission of the County of Kauai.†	133 Haw. 141	39
2015	Schwartz v. State.†	136 Haw. 258	38
2013	Siopes v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc..†	130 Haw. 437	38
2015	Adams v. CDM Media USA, Inc.†	135 Haw. 1	37
2014	State v. Basham.†	132 Haw. 97	36
2018	State v. Celestine.†	142 Haw. 165	34
2014	State v. Davis.†	133 Haw. 102	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 100 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 Richard W. Pollack on?: Richard W. Pollack is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Sources

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14 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).