How do judges of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals / Joined 2000 / Active

Simeon Rivera Acoba Jr.

Judge, Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals

Simeon Rivera Acoba Jr. is a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: Since 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Northwestern University

Judicial Record

In our data, Acoba authored 2 published opinions for the court (1997–2000), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Riveira (13 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. 8 of these were attributed to Acoba 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
2000	State v. Riveira· Dissent†	993 P.2d 580	13
2000	Tomomitsu v. State· Concurrence†	995 P.2d 323	10
2000	State v. Castro· Concurrence†	5 P.3d 444	9
2000	State v. Reyes· Concurrence†	2 P.3d 725	9
2000	International Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Carbonel†	93 Haw. 464	8
2000	State v. Werner· Concurrence†	1 P.3d 760	8
2000	Lee v. Yano· Dissent†	997 P.2d 68	8
1997	Bank of Hawaii v. Kunimoto	984 P.2d 1253	6
2000	Hawai'i National Bank v. Cook· Dissent†	55 P.3d 827	4

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Simeon Rivera Acoba Jr. on?: Simeon Rivera Acoba Jr. is a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals.

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26 years on the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).