Shiro Kashiwa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shiro Kashiwa

United States federal judge

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1912

Place of Birth: Kohala, Hawaii, United States

Date of Death: 13-Mar-1998

Profession: judge, lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Shiro Kashiwa (October 24, 1912 – March 13, 1998) was the first Attorney General of Hawaii to be appointed after it became a state in 1959.
He served as a Judge of the United States Court of Claims, then as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.
from 1982 to 1986.
He was the first Federal judge of Japanese-American descent, the first Asian American judge on the Federal Circuit and was a member of the Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism.