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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Hawaii / Joined 1992 / Served to 2008

Stephen Henry Levinson

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Stephen Henry Levinson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 1992–2008 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Education

Stanford University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Judicial Record

In our data, Levinson authored 151 published opinions for the court (1992–2008), plus 12 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: Amfac, Inc. v. Waikiki Beachcomber Investment Co. (424 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. 170 of these were attributed to Levinson 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
1992	Amfac, Inc. v. Waikiki Beachcomber Investment Co.†	839 P.2d 10	424
1996	State v. Arceo†	928 P.2d 843	364
1995	State v. Toyomura†	904 P.2d 893	244
2000	State v. Jenkins†	997 P.2d 13	242
1997	Gray v. Administrative Director of Court†	931 P.2d 580	226
2008	State v. Mainaaupo†	178 P.3d 1	220
1995	State v. Gaylord†	890 P.2d 1167	187
1998	Korean Buddhist Dae Won Sa Temple v. Sullivan†	953 P.2d 1315	183
1992	State v. Batson†	831 P.2d 924	174
1994	Richardson v. City and County of Honolulu†	868 P.2d 1193	166
1993	Baehr v. Lewin†	74 Haw. 530	165
2006	State v. Nichols	141 P.3d 974	164
1994	State v. Hoey†	881 P.2d 504	163
2000	Dairy Road Partners v. Island Insurance Co.†	992 P.2d 93	157
1998	Roxas v. Marcos†	969 P.2d 1209	154

Showing the 15 most-cited of 192 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 Stephen Henry Levinson on?: Stephen Henry Levinson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

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16 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).