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2 prosecutors join AGO
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Posted on Dec 10 2006
Two female lawyers from the U.S. mainland have joined the Attorney General’s Office’s Immigration Division and Criminal Division.
Assistant attorney general Mary Melissa Simms is assigned at the Immigration Division, while assistant attorney general Anne-Marie Roy is at the Criminal Division.
In an interview with Saipan Tribune, Simms, who is from Atlanta, Georgia, stated that she is very excited to be part of the AGO.
“I received a very warm welcome from everybody at the office as well as the entire community here. I am very excited to be involved in the unique immigration system that we have here,” Simms said.
Simms started to work at the AGO last Sept. 18 and that she is looking forward to spending many years in the government.
Simms spent last year in London getting an international law degree. She then found a job listing online for the CNMI’s AGO so she started communicating with Attorney General Matthew Gregory.
“I’m very much enjoying Saipan. Still I’m trying to find may way around a little bit, getting to know where to shop for certain things. And everyone has been very, very helpful. I enjoyed exploring the island, going to the beaches. It’s wonderful,” Simms said.
A product of the Mercer University School of Law, Simms served as a domestic violence prosecutor for six years in Atlanta and Northwest Georgia.
Roy, from Rhode Island, had just joined the AGO’s Criminal Division on Nov. 27.
Roy has been on Saipan for a year now.
“I absolutely love it (Saipan). It is the most beautiful place I have ever seen. And the people are just the nicest people I have encountered,” Roy said.
Roy will be assigned to Superior Court associate judge David Wiseman’s courtroom and his calendar. She will be handling sexual abuse and domestic assault cases, and other criminal cases.
Roy has a wide variety of experience in criminal law and civil law.
Before moving to Saipan, she had her own law practice concentrating in housing law and working with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Roy said she learned about the job on Saipan through assistant U.S. attorney Craig Moore.
