Shiro Kashiwa (Japanese: 柏 至朗,[1] October 24, 1912 – March 13, 1998) was an American lawyer and judge who was the first Attorney General of Hawaii to be appointed after it became a state in 1959.
[3] There he led the division's first suit against a thermal polluter, oversaw a major case against Armco Steel,[4] and represented the government at the United States Supreme Court.
Kashiwa was nominated by President Richard Nixon on November 30, 1971, to a seat on the United States Court of Claims vacated by Judge James Randall Durfee.
He was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 2, 1971, and received his commission on January 3, 1972.
He was reassigned by operation of law on October 1, 1982, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, to a new seat authorized by 96 Stat.