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 1982 / Served to 1994

Walter Meheula Heen

Judge, Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals

Walter Meheula Heen was a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1928 · age 98
Tenure: 1982–1994 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Heen authored 142 published opinions for the court (1982–1994), plus 1 dissent and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Kilauea Neighborhood Ass'n v. Land Use Commission (59 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. 150 of these were attributed to Heen 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
1988	Kilauea Neighborhood Ass'n v. Land Use Commission†	751 P.2d 1031	59
1991	Miller v. Manuel†	828 P.2d 286	42
1989	Wong v. Panis†	772 P.2d 695	42
1991	Marshall v. University of Hawai'i†	821 P.2d 937	39
1984	Union Building Materials Corp. v. Kakaako Corp.†	5 Haw. App. 146	39
1984	Nani Koolau Co. v. K & M Construction, Inc.†	681 P.2d 580	36
1983	McKeague v. Talbert†	658 P.2d 898	35
1990	State v. Ferraro†	800 P.2d 623	34
1987	State v. Allen†	744 P.2d 789	34
1983	Bishop Trust Co., Ltd. v. Central Union Church†	656 P.2d 1353	34
1990	Tradewinds Hotel, Inc. v. Cochran†	799 P.2d 60	32
1985	Marsland v. Pang†	701 P.2d 175	32
1982	Costa v. Able Distributors, Inc.†	653 P.2d 101	32
1986	KUKUI NUTS OF HAWAII v. R. Baird & Co., Inc.†	726 P.2d 268	31
1983	Hayashi v. Hayashi†	666 P.2d 171	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 150 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 Meheula Heen on?: Walter Meheula Heen was a Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals.

Sources

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12 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).