{"id":157756,"date":"2011-12-30T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdd11ef4-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2011-12-30T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T13:18:00","slug":"bdd11f05-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bdd11f05-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Manglona sworn in as District Court chief judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year saw the U.S. Senate\u2019s confirmation and the swearing-in of Ramona Villagomez Manglona as chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the NMI\u2014making her the first federal judge from the Northern Marianas and marking a true milestone in the history of the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Senate confirmed Manglona as chief judge of the District Court for the NMI for a 10-year term on July 26. Three days later, President Barack Obama signed Manglona\u2019s commission, marking the first time for an indigenous person of the CNMI to serve as a federal judge.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona was sworn-in in a private ceremony as chief judge in July. The following month, a historic investiture ceremony was held at the District Court.<\/p>\n<p>At the ceremony, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Judge Mary M. Schroeder administered the oath of office for Manglona and served as the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n<p>In her judicial address, the 44-year-old Manglona said it is truly and honor to be called to serve as a federal judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year saw the U.S. Senate\u2019s confirmation and the swearing-in of Ramona Villagomez Manglona as chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the NMI\u2014making her the first federal judge from the Northern Marianas and marking a true milestone in the history of the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}