{"id":401954,"date":"2023-11-27T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=401954"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Palacios-nominates-Tenorio-to-CNMI-Superior-Court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Palacios-nominates-Tenorio-to-CNMI-Superior-Court\/","title":{"rendered":"Palacios nominates Tenorio to CNMI Superior Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Arnold I. Palacios last week nominated deputy attorney general Lillian Tenorio to serve on the CNMI Superior Court. If confirmed, Tenorio will succeed Associate Judge Wesley Bogdan, who will retire in December, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeputy attorney general Lillian Tenorio is a dedicated public servant with extensive professional experience who has served the people of the Northern Marianas in a number of capacities for decades,\u201d Palacios said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn her work at the legislative and executive branches of the CNMI, she has consistently demonstrated a deep understanding of both local and federal laws and a commitment to upholding the principles of justice,\u201d Palacios added. \u201cI am confident that she will be an effective Superior Court judge who will continue to strengthen the bench at the Judiciary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tenorio currently serves as the assistant for the Attorney General, supervising the divisions within the Office of the Attorney General. She also serves as the primary legal counsel for the departments of the Executive Branch.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the Office of the Attorney General in 2015, Tenorio owned and operated a law firm where she engaged in a wide range of areas of law, including corporate counseling, public policy consulting, administrative law, public utilities, government procurement and contracts, estate planning, land transactions, civil litigation and family law. During this time, she also taught as an adjunct instructor at Northern Marianas College.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2002 and 2004, Tenorio also served as the legal counsel for the House of Representatives, where she drafted legislation, wrote resolutions and committee reports on major bills, researched and drafted memoranda on numerous legal issues, and supervised legislative analysts.<\/p>\n<p>Tenorio also worked as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John A. Manglona from 1999 to 2001.<\/p>\n<p>She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Davis in 1984, and earned her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1999 and received the Julia Raymond McCulloch Memorial Award for excellence in Constitutional Law.<\/p>\n<p>Tenorio was admitted to the CNMI Bar in 2000. She is also an inactive member of the State of New Mexico Bar. <em><strong><em>(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/a7848c22f186dba4c3a392d1df98d76c.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lilian Tenorio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Arnold I. Palacios last week nominated deputy attorney general Lillian Tenorio to serve on&#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-401954","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\/401954","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=401954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}