| Office: | Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court of Hawaii |
| Term Start: | September 26, 1918 |
| Term End: | October 10, 1922 |
| Birth Date: | 1857 |
| Death Date: | August 23, 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Charleston, South Carolina |
| Death Place: | Ocala, Florida |
| Party: | Democrat |
| Appointer: | Woodrow Wilson |
William Seabrook Edings (1857 – August 23, 1927)[1] was a justice of the Territorial Supreme Court of Hawaii from September 26, 1918 to October 10, 1922.[2]
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.[3] Edings was nominated to the territorial court by President Woodrow Wilson on September 6, 1918, with the nomination generally being met with bipartisan approval.[3] [4] 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.[3]
Edings died in Ocala, Florida, around the age of 70.[1]
