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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Hawaii / Joined 1993 / Served to 2010

Ronald T.Y. Moon

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Ronald T.Y. Moon was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who joined the court in 1993. He previously served on the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 1993–2010 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Coe College
Coe College

Judicial Record

In our data, Moon authored 783 published opinions for the court (1991–2013), plus 17 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Kema v. Gaddis (510 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. 161 of these were attributed to Moon 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
1999	Kema v. Gaddis	982 P.2d 334	510
2000	State v. Jenkins	997 P.2d 13	242
2008	State v. Mainaaupo	178 P.3d 1	220
2000	In Re Water Use Permit Applications	9 P.3d 409	218
2000	Hawaii Community Federal Credit Union v. Keka	11 P.3d 1	193
1999	State v. Rogan	984 P.2d 1231	183
2001	In the Interest of Doe	20 P.3d 616	181
1996	State v. Wallace	910 P.2d 695	176
1994	Dan v. State†	879 P.2d 528	172
2009	State v. Wheeler	219 P.3d 1170	164
2000	Dairy Road Partners v. Island Insurance Co.	992 P.2d 93	157
2002	Coon v. City and County of Honolulu	47 P.3d 348	154
2001	Schefke v. Reliable Collection Agency, Ltd.	32 P.3d 52	154
1995	State v. Higa†	897 P.2d 928	150
1994	Sentinel Insurance Co. v. First Insurance Co. of Hawai'i, Ltd.†	875 P.2d 894	149

Showing the 15 most-cited of 812 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 Ronald T.Y. Moon on?: Ronald T.Y. Moon was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Sources

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17 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).