Lisa M. Ginoza
American judge
Lisa Miyoko Ginoza is an American lawyer from Hawaii who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii since 2024. She previously served as the chief judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals from 2018 to 2024.
Education
Ginoza received her bachelor's degree from Oregon State University, and her Juris Doctor from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii.
Career
Ginoza served as a law clerk to the Judge Samuel Pailthorpe King of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. In 1990 she entered private practice with the law firm of McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon, where she became a partner and over the course of fourteen years had an extensive civil litigation practice. From January 2005 until her appointment to the bench she served as first deputy attorney general for the State of Hawaii. Ginoza has also served as an adjunct professor in appellate advocacy at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii.
Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals
Ginoza was first nominated to the court by Republican Governor Linda Lingle in February 2010, and her nomination was confirmed by the Hawaii Senate on March 5, 2010. Her 10-year term would have expired on May 6, 2020.
She was appointed chief judge of the court by Democratic Governor David Ige in March 2018.
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