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 1995 / Served to 1998

Walter Kirimitsu

Judge, Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals

Walter Kirimitsu was a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–1998 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kirimitsu authored 36 published opinions for the court (1995–1998), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Pancakes of Hawaii, Inc. v. Pomare Properties Corp. (49 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. 36 of these were attributed to Kirimitsu 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
1997	Pancakes of Hawaii, Inc. v. Pomare Properties Corp.†	85 Haw. 286	49
1997	Pancakes of Hawaii, Inc. v. Pomare Properties Corp.†	944 P.2d 97	48
1996	Hunt v. First Ins. Co. of Hawaii Ltd.†	922 P.2d 976	46
1997	Pil Dong Han v. Min Ho Yang†	931 P.2d 604	32
1998	Foote v. Royal Insurance Co. of America†	962 P.2d 1004	25
1996	McLellan v. Atchison Insurance Agency, Inc.†	912 P.2d 559	24
1996	State v. Pudiquet†	922 P.2d 1032	20
1997	Ditto v. McCurdy†	947 P.2d 961	18
1995	Page v. Domino's Pizza, Inc.	908 P.2d 552	17
1995	Aloha Unlimited, Inc. v. Coughlin†	904 P.2d 541	17
1996	Romero v. Hariri†	911 P.2d 85	16
1996	Lau v. Allied Wholesale, Inc.†	922 P.2d 1041	15
1998	Christiansen v. First Insurance Co. of Hawaii, Ltd.†	967 P.2d 639	13
1997	Survivors of Iida v. Oriental Imports, Inc.†	935 P.2d 105	13
1996	State v. Cavness· Concurrence†	911 P.2d 95	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 37 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 was Walter Kirimitsu on?: Walter Kirimitsu was a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals.

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3 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).