Cable A. Wirtz (May 9, 1910 – December, 1980)[1] was a justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii from October 5, 1959 to May 8, 1967.
[2] In 1944, Wirtz was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a seat as a judge on the 2nd Circuit of Hawaii, to which he was sworn in by Chief Justice Samuel B. Kemp on February 15, 1944.
[3] Wirtz was the youngest circuit judge to take the bench in Hawaii when he was appointed in 1944,[1] and served in that capacity until 1951, when he returned to private practice.
[2] Following Hawaii's admission to statehood in 1959, Wirtz was one of the first justices appointed to the newly established state supreme court, along with Charles E. Cassidy and Rhoda Valentine Lewis.
[4] He retired from the court in 1967, and returned to private practice, until 1978, when poor health forced him to curtail his activities.