Bert T. Kobayashi

Bert Takaaki Kobayashi Sr. was a justice of the Supreme [Court of Hawaii] from July 17, 1969, to December 29, 1978.
Kobayashi was born in 1916 to Japanese immigrant parents. He attended President [William McKinley High School], graduating in 1935. He attended Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, and Harvard Law School.
In 1962, Governor John Burns appointed Kobayashi Attorney General of Hawaii, after Kobayashi turned down a previous offer from Burns to run as his lieutenant governor. Burns appointed Kobayashi to the state supreme court in 1969.