- Kazuhisa Abe - first Asian American magistrate in Hawaii (1940)
- John F. Aiso - first Japanese American judge in the continental U.S. (1957)
- Herbert Choy - first Asian American U.S. federal judge (1971)
- Masaji Marumoto - first Asian American territorial court justice (1956)
- Benjamin Menor - first Filipino American State Supreme Court justice (1959)
- Kathryn Doi Todd - first female Asian American judge in the U.S. (1978)
- Cyrus Nils Tavares - first Native Hawaiian U.S. federal judge (1960)
- Delbert E. Wong - first Chinese American judge in the continental U.S. (1959)
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- ↑ "Coe College History - People - Alumni - Wilfred Tsukiyama". www.public.coe.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ↑ Japanese American history : an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present . Niiya, Brian. New York: Facts on File. 1993. ISBN 0816026807. OCLC 26853950.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ Kakesako, Gregg (September 29, 1999). "Former chief justice a proud, loyal nisei". archives.starbulletin.com. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Chinen, Karleen C. (2012). Hawaii's AJA pioneers : one hundred profiles commemorating the centennial of the Hawaii Hochi. Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaii Hochi Ltd. p. 124.
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