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Michael K. Tanigawa

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Michael K. Tanigawa

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Prior offices
O`ahu First Circuit District Court 1st District

Education

Bachelor's

University of Massachusetts

Law

Hastings College of the Law

Michael K. Tanigawa was a judge of the O`ahu First Circuit District Court 1st District in Hawaii. He left office on March 1, 2022.

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Education

Tanigawa received his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts and his J.D. from the Hastings College of the Law.[1]

Career

From 2008 until his appointment, Tanigawa served as a staff attorney with the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals. Prior to that, he practiced law with the firms of Char Sakamoto Ishii Lum & Ching and Tanigawa & Tanigawa. He also previously taught as an adjunct professor in appellate advocacy at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law and volunteered as an arbitrator with the Court Annexed Arbitration Program.[2]

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Footnotes

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  2. Hawaii State Judiciary, "Judge Michael K. Tanigawa," accessed August 22, 2014