James Earl Duffy Jr.[1] (born June 4, 1942) is a retired associate justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court.
[3] Duffy began his legal career in 1968 at the law firm Cobb & Gould where he became an associate.
He joined the law firm Chuck & Fujiyama in Honolulu, Hawaii as an associate.
[4] On June 17, 1999, President Bill Clinton nominated Duffy to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to replace Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall, who had taken senior status on August 31, 1997.
[8] "Hawaii has been very good to me, both personally and professionally, and this is my opportunity to pay back some of the good things that have been done for me in the practice of law and personally," Duffy said at a news conference while standing next to Lingle, according to an April 15, 2003 Associated Press article.