William S. Edings

William Seabrook Edings (1857 – August 23, 1927) was a justice of the Territorial Supreme Court of Hawaii from September 26, 1918 to October 10, 1922.

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Edings eventually moved to the state of Washington, and in 1895 moved to Hawaii. In 1900, he was appointed as a judge of the territorial circuit court at Kailua, Hawaii, where he remained for four years. During his tenure there, he compiled a digest of Hawaiian reports that came to be used as an authority by Hawaii attorneys. Edings was nominated to the territorial court by President Woodrow Wilson on September 6, 1918, with the nomination generally being met with bipartisan approval. At the same time that Wilson named Edings, a Democrat, to the supreme court, he also named former circuit judge John T. DeBolt, a Republican, to succeed Edings as circuit judge.

Edings died in Ocala, Florida, around the age of 70.