Kashiwa Shiro

American jurist who was the first Attorney General of Hawaii to be appointed after it became a state in 1959. He served as a Judge of the United States Court of Claims, then as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. from 1982 to 1986. He was the first Federal judge of Japanese-American descent, the first Asian American judge on the Federal Circuit and was a member of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism. He retired on 7 January 1986. Kashiwa died on 13 March 1998 in Honolulu at age 85. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less