David Alan Ezra (born June 27, 1947) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. Since January 2013, Ezra has been designated by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve on the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, San Antonio and Austin Divisions to help ease the heavy workload for the federal judges in Texas. Judge Ezra is often designated to sit on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit where he holds the record for the most designated sittings of any judge in that Court’s history.
David Alan Ezra
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
Born 1947 in Columbus, OH
FJC ID: 727
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 55/year
Hawaii District Court · 1988–2012
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- William S. Richardson School of LawAdjunct professor of law · 1978–present
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2003–2005
- Private practice, Honolulu, Hawaii1972–1988
U.S. Army Reserve1971–1977- Office of the Corporation Counsel, City and County of Honolulu, HawaiiLaw clerk · 1972
Appointments
1988–2012 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
- St. Mary's University School of Law, TexasJ.D. · 1972
- St. Mary's University, TexasB.B.A. · 1969