Rhoda Valentine Lewis

Rhoda Valentine Lewis (August 31, 1906 – September 12, 1991) was the first female justice on the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

After the Attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 she drafted the Hawaii Defense Act, granting the governor emergency powers.

She was later involved in Duncan v. Kahanamoku, a case argued before the Supreme Court of the United States over martial law in Hawaii.

A 1961 opinion she wrote for the court gave the family of a deceased person the right to gain some of their "projected life earnings" if it was discovered someone "negligently contributed" to their death.

Lewis provided legal consultation the effort to gain Hawaii statehood, advocating on the issue in Washington, D.C. several times.