Field-effect transistors made of wide-bandgap semiconductors can handle high electric power in a small space and have been of increasing importance in power and highfrequency electronics. An obstacle to advancing the field is the poor performance of hole-based p-channel transistors compared with that of their electron-based nchannel counterparts. This problem stems from the low mobility of holes, and it has constrained the production of energy-efficient complimentary circuits with integrated n-and p-channel transistors. The present paper reports fabrication of a p-channel wide-bandgap transistor with an exceptionally high hole mobility of 680 cm 2 V −1 s −1 , consisting of a hydrogen-terminated diamond channel and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) gate insulator. A high-quality h-BN/diamond heterostructure, with a reduced density of acceptor states near the diamond surface, suppresses hole scattering and thereby enables the device to have the highest mobility, lowest sheet resistance (1.4 kΩ), and largest on-current (1800 µm mA mm −1 ) among p-channel wide-bandgap transistors. Importantly, the transistor also shows normally-off behavior, with a high on/off ratio exceeding 10 8 . These characteristics are all desirable for switching high powers with low losses. This study opens a pathway to the development of highmobility p-channel wide-bandgap transistors with great potential for compact, fast, and energy-efficient electronic devices.