The Constitution of the State of Hawai`i, Article VI, Section 4 reads as follows:

Judicial Selection Commission – “There shall be a judicial selection commission that shall consist of nine members. The governor shall appoint two members to the commission. No more than one of the two members shall be a licensed attorney. The president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives shall each respectively appoint two members to the commission. The chief justice of the Supreme Court shall appoint one member to the commission. Members in good standing of the bar of the State shall elect two of their number to the commission in an election conducted by the Supreme Court or its delegate. No more than four members of the commission shall be licensed attorneys. At all times, at least one member of the commission shall be a resident of a county other than the City and County of Honolulu. The commission shall be selected and shall operate in a wholly nonpartisan manner. After the initial formation of the commission, elections and appointments to the commission shall be for staggered terms of six years each. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no member of the commission shall serve for more than six years on the commission. Each member of the judicial selection commission shall be a resident of the State and a citizen of the United States.” [Add Const Con 1978 and election Nov. 8, 1978; am SB2513 (1994) and SB2515 (1994) and election Nov 8, 1994]. The following list the current and past Judicial Selection Commission Members:

Commission Members:	Term:	Appointing/Electing Authority:	Officers:
Simeon R. Acoba, Jr.	2023-2029	Hawaiʻi State Bar Association
Edmund D. Acoba	2023-2029	Senate President Ronald D. Kouchi
Florence T. Nanakuni	2023-2029	House Speaker Scott K. Saki
Sylvia Yuen	2022 -2028	Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald
Kamani B. Kualaʻau	2021-2027	House Speaker Scott K. Saiki	2023-2025 Chair
David B. McEwan	2021-2027	Governor David Ige	2023-2025 Secretary
Jeffrey S. Portnoy	2021-2024	Hawaiʻi State Bar Association	2023-2024 Vice Chair
Sulma Gandhi	2020-2021	Governor David Ige
Francine Dudoit-Tagupa	2020-2026	Senate President Ronald D. Kouchi	2021-2023 Vice Chair
Nadine Y. Ando	2019-2023	Hawaiʻi State Bar Association	2021-2023 Chair
Dawn P.N. Mahi	2019-2025	Governor David Ige	2020-2023 Secretary
Richard A. Dubanoski	2019-2022	Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald	2020-2021, Vice Chair
Trudy K. Senda	2017-2023	Senate President Ronald D. Kouchi	2019-2020 Secretary
Paul M. Ueoka	2017-2023	House Speaker Joseph M. Souki
Jackie Young	2017-2019	Governor David Ige	2017-2019 Chair
Richard A. Dubanoski	2016-2019	Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald
Keith W. Hunter	2015-2020	Governor David Ige
Bryan Kageyama	2015-2021	House Speaker Joseph M. Souki
Ronette M. Kawakami	2015-2021	Hawai`i State Bar Association	2017-2019 Vice Chair; 2019-2021 Chair
Mike Middlesworth	2015-2020	Senate President Donna Mercado Kim	2017-2019 Secretary; 2019-2020 Vice Chair
Allan K. Ikawa	2014-2014	Senate President Donna Mercado Kim
Walter S. Kirimitsu	2014-2017	House Speaker Joseph Souki	2015-2017 Secretary
Patricia Kim Park	2013-2017	Governor Neil Abercrombie
Phyllis C. Horner	2013-2016	Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald
James A. Kawachika	2013-2019	Hawai`i State Bar	2015-2017 Chair
Jackie Young	2013-2017	Senate President Donna Mercado Kim	2015-2017 Vice Chair
Doris M. Ching	2012-2015	Governor Neil Abercrombie	2013-2015 Chair
Annelle C. Amaral	2011-2012	Senate President Shan Tsutsui
Jeffrey S. Portnoy	2011-2013	Gov. Neil Abercrombie
Thomas R. Waters	2011-2014	House Speaker Calvin Say	2013-2014 Vice Chair
James J. Bickerton	2009-2015	Hawai`i State Bar	2014-2015 Vice Chair
Albert Y. Kanno	2009-2015	House Speaker Calvin Say	2011-2015 Secretary
Lloyd M. Yonenaka	2009-2011	Governor Linda Lingle	2009-2011 Secretary
George M. Masuoka	2008-2014	Senate President Colleen Hanabusa	2011-2013 Vice Chair
Susan M. Ichinose	2007-2013	Hawai`i State Bar	2011-2013 Chair, 2009-2011 Vice Chair
Frederick T. Okumura	2007-2013	Chief Justice Ronald Moon
Shelton G.W. Jim On	2005-2011	Governor Linda Lingle	2009-2011 Secretary
Ralph R. LaFountaine	2005-2011	House Speaker Calvin Say
Sheri N. Sakamoto	2005-2011	Senate President Robert Bunda	2009-2011 Chair
Wesley Imamura	2005-2005	Senate President Robert Bunda
Rosemary T. Fazio	2003-2009	Hawai`i State Bar	2007-09 Chair, 2005-2007 Vice Chair, 2003-2005 Secretary
Thomas Fujikawa	2003-2009	House Speaker Calvin Say
Philip D. Hellreich	2003-2009	Governor Linda Lingle	2007-2009 Vice Chair
Melvin I. Chiba	2002-2008	Senate President Robert Bunda	2005-2007 Chair, 2003-2005 Vice Chair
Sidney K. Ayabe	2001-2007	Hawai`i State Bar	2003-2005 Chair
Lois M. Suzawa	2001-2007	Chief Justice Ronald Moon	2005-2007 Secretary
Amy Agbayani	2000-2003	Governor Benjamin Cayetano	2001-2003 Chair
John S. Edmunds	1999-2005	Senate President Norman Mizuguchi	2001-2003 Vice Chair
Arthur Y. Park	1999-2005	Governor Benjamin Cayetano	2001-2003 Secretary
Lionel Y. Tokioka	1999-2005	House Speaker Calvin Say
James Kawashima	1997-2003	Hawai`i State Bar
Max J. Sword	1997-2003	House Speaker Joseph Souki	2000-2001 Vice Chair, 1999-2000 Secretary
Wayne Matsuo	1997-1999	Governor Benjamin Cayetano	1999-2000 Chair
Gary Rodrigues	1996-2002	Senate President Norman Mizuguchi
Gary Mijo	1995-1996	Governor Benjamin Cayetano
Christine Camacho	1995-2001	Chief Justice Ronald Moon	2000-2001 Secretary
David L. Fairbanks	1995-2001	Hawai`i State Bar	2000-2001 Chair,1999-2000 Vice Chair

The Constitution of the State of Hawaii, Article XV111, Section 18.5 reads as follows:

Judiciary: transition; effective date – “The three members initially appointed to the judicial selection commission by the governor shall serve for terms of two, four and six years respectively. The members initially appointed to the commission by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall serve for two years. The two members initially appointed to the commission by the chief justice of the Supreme Court shall serve terms of four and six years respectively. The two members initially elected to the commission by the members of the bar of the State shall serve for terms of four and six years respectively.” [Add Const Con 1978 and election Nov. 7, 1978]

Commission Members:	Term:	Appointing/Electing Authority:	Officers:
Bina Chun	1993-1999	Senate President Norman Mizuguchi
B. Martin Luna	1993-1999	House Speaker Joseph Souki	1997-1999 Chair
Lynne Kaneshiro	1993-1999	Governor John Waihee	1993-1999 Vice Chair
Dorothy K. Ching	1991-1997	Chief Justice Herman Lum	1993-1995 Vice Chair
William A. Harrison	1991-1997	Gov. John Waihee	1993-1995 Chair
Raymond J. Tam	1991-1997	Hawai`i State Bar
Ellen Colburn-Rohn	1989-1995	Chief Justice Herman Lum	1991-1993 Vice Chair
C. Michael Hare	1989-1995	Hawai`i State Bar	1991-1993 Chair
Shigeo Iwamoto	1989-1995	Governor John Waihee	1991-1993 Secretary
Gerard A. Jervis	1987-1993	Senate President Richard Wong	1989-1991 Chair, 1987-1989 Secretary
Howard Mukai	1987-1993	Governor John Waihee	1989-1991 Vice Chair
Tommy Trask	1987-1993	House Speaker
Raymond J.Tam	1987-1991	Hawai`i State Bar	1989-1991 Secretary
Bert A. Kobayashi, Jr.	1985-1991	Governor George Ariyoshi	1987-1989 Chair
Harold Lau	1985-1991	Chief Justice Herman Lum
Warren Price, III	1985-1987	Hawai`i State Bar	1985-1987 Secretary
Kenneth Matsuura	1984-1987	House Speaker Henry Peters
Momi Cazimero	1983-1989	Chief Justice Herman Lum	1985-1989 Vice Chair, 1983-85 Secretary
William Fleming	1983-1989	Hawai`i State Bar
James Takushi	1983-1989	Governor George Ariyoshi
Harold Lau	1982-1985	Chief Justice William Richardson
Thomas Enomoto	1981-1984	House Speaker Henry Peters	1985-1987 Vice Chair
Claudio Suyat	1981-1987	Governor George Ariyoshi	1981-1983 Chair, 1979-1981 Vice Chair
Lawrence Okinaga	1981-1987	Senate President Richard Wong	1985-1987 Chair
Alfred Wong	1979-1985	Governor George Ariyoshi	1983-1985 Chair
James E.T. Koshiba	1979-1985	Hawai`i State Bar	1979-1981 Chair
Joan Brown	1979-1983	Governor George Ariyoshi	1979-1983 Secretary
Herbert C. Cornuelle	1979-1983	Chief Justice William Richardson
William Fleming	1979-1983	Hawai`i State Bar
Henry T. Miyamoto	1979-1982	Chief Justice William Richardson
Claudio Suyat	1979-1981	Governor George Ariyoshi
Lawrence Okinaga	1979-1981	Senate President Richard Wong
Leonard Hoshijo	1979-1981	House Speaker James Wakatsuki