Two female lawyers from the U.S. mainland have joined the Attorney General\u2019s Office\u2019s Immigration Division and Criminal Division.<\/p>\n
Assistant attorney general Mary Melissa Simms is assigned at the Immigration Division, while assistant attorney general Anne-Marie Roy is at the Criminal Division.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Saipan Tribune, Simms, who is from Atlanta, Georgia, stated that she is very excited to be part of the AGO.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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,\u201d Simms said.<\/p>\n
Simms started to work at the AGO last Sept. 18 and that she is looking forward to spending many years in the government.<\/p>\n
Simms spent last year in London getting an international law degree. She then found a job listing online for the CNMI\u2019s AGO so she started communicating with Attorney General Matthew Gregory.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very much enjoying Saipan. Still I\u2019m 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\u2019s wonderful,\u201d Simms said.<\/p>\n
A product of the Mercer University School of Law, Simms served as a domestic violence prosecutor for six years in Atlanta and Northwest Georgia.<\/p>\n
Roy, from Rhode Island, had just joined the AGO\u2019s Criminal Division on Nov. 27.<\/p>\n
Roy has been on Saipan for a year now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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,\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n
Roy will be assigned to Superior Court associate judge David Wiseman\u2019s courtroom and his calendar. She will be handling sexual abuse and domestic assault cases, and other criminal cases.<\/p>\n
Roy has a wide variety of experience in criminal law and civil law.<\/p>\n
Before moving to Saipan, she had her own law practice concentrating in housing law and working with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.<\/p>\n
Roy said she learned about the job on Saipan through assistant U.S. attorney Craig Moore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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