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Lawrence Reifurth
Lawrence M. Reifurth was a judge on the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals. He was nominated to the court by Governor Linda Lingle (R) in January 2010 and was unanimously confirmed by the Hawaii State Senate on February 5, 2010.[1][2] He was sworn in on March 11, 2010.[3] Reifurth retired in August 2019.[4]
Reifurth filled the vacancy created when Lingle elevated Craig Nakamura to chief judge.[5]
Education
Reifurth received his B.S. in economics from Marquette University in 1979, his M.B.A from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1981, and his J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law in 1983.[3]
Career
Reifurth was one of five candidates for the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals recommended to Lingle by the Hawaii Judicial Selection Commission.[6] He was unanimously confirmed by the state Senate on February 5, 2010.[7]
Reifurth was director of the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs before joining the bench. Before that he was the department’s deputy director. Reifurth's other public sector experience included serving as the state’s insurance commissioner in 1994, as a deputy attorney general with the state’s Division of Consumer Advocacy from 1989 to 1992, and as an assistant city attorney in California. He was in private practice with the law firm of Oshima Chun Fong & Chung in Honolulu from 1993 to 1994.[8][9]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Associated Press, "Senators confirm Reifurth as judge," February 6, 2010
- ↑ Contra Costa Times, "Former Marin lawyer named to Hawaiian court," January 13, 2010
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hawaii State Judiciary, "Associate Judge Lawrence M. Reifurth," accessed May 23, 2015
- ↑ Office of the governor, "Governor Ige to consider six lists of judicial nominees for First Circuit, Intermediate Court of Appeals," July 29, 2019
- ↑ Pacific Business News, "Reifurth nominated for appeals judge," January 7, 2010
- ↑ Honolulu Advertiser, "DCCA director nominated as judge on Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals," January 7, 2010
- ↑ Honolulu Advertiser, "Reifurth confirmed as Hawaii appeals judge," February 6, 2010
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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Federal courts:
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Hawaii • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Hawaii
State courts:
Hawaii Supreme Court • Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals • Hawaii Circuit Courts • Hawaii District Courts • Hawaii Family Courts
State resources:
Courts in Hawaii • Hawaii judicial elections • Judicial selection in Hawaii
