Samuel Pailthorpe King (April 13, 1916 – December 7, 2010) was an American lawyer and judge. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.
Samuel Pailthorpe King
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
Born 1916 in Hankow, China
Died 2010 in Honolulu, HI
FJC ID: 1282
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 71/year
Hawaii District Court · 1972–2010
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
- Pacific Islander/White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Honolulu, Hawaii1941–1942, 1946–1961, 1970–1972
- Circuit Court of Hawaii, First Judicial CircuitJudge · 1961–1970
- Family Court of Hawaii, First Judicial CircuitJudge · 1966–1970
- U.S. Naval Reserve1946–1967
- City and County of Honolulu, HawaiiDistrict magistrate · 1956–1961
U.S. Navy1942–1946- Private practice, Washington, D.C.1942
Appointments
1972–2010 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1940- Yale UniversityB.S. · 1937