{"id":399272,"date":"2023-09-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=399272"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Slew-of-potential-candidates-for-soon-to-be-vacated-judge-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Slew-of-potential-candidates-for-soon-to-be-vacated-judge-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Slew of potential candidates for soon-to-be vacated judge posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Arnold I. Palacios said yesterday that he and Lt. Gov. David M. Apatang have yet to make a decision as to who they will appoint for the two judge positions.<\/p>\n<p>Palacios said a slew of possible candidates came up such as attorneys Mike Evangelista, Joey Patrick San Nicolas, Lilian A. Tenorio, and Lucy Maratita.<\/p>\n<p>He said at the end of the day, he and Apatang will sit down and appoint the best suitable lawyers to serve as Superior Court judges.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said the appointment of the judges is something that he takes seriously because of their important role in the community.<\/p>\n<p>He did not indicate when they are going to make the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Judge Wesley M. Bogdan will be retiring in December 2023, while Associate Judge Kenneth L. Govendo is retiring in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice Alexandro C. Castro last month requested Palacios for his timely consideration in nominating suitable candidates to fill these esteemed positions.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/b427704c819d510e4ea01eae952eb26f.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>Justice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Arnold I. Palacios said yesterday that he and Lt. Gov. David M. Apatang have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399272","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\/399272","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=399272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}