{"id":404727,"date":"2024-01-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404727"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Alepuyo-backs-judicial-nominee-Tenorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Alepuyo-backs-judicial-nominee-Tenorio\/","title":{"rendered":"Alepuyo backs judicial nominee Tenorio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran lawyer Viola Alepuyo has come out in support of the nomination of deputy attorney general Lillian Ada Tenorio to become a Superior Court judge.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter she submitted yesterday to both Senate President Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero (D-Saipan) and Sen. Celina R. Babauta (D-Saipan), who chairs the Senate Executive Appointments and Government Investigations Committee, Alepuyo said Tenorio\u2019s legal experiences will be an asset to the Judiciary. Tenorio has been a CNMI Supreme Court clerk, legislative counsel, private practitioner, and recently as the deputy AG.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, Gov. Arnold I. Palacios nominated Tenorio to serve on the CNMI Superior Court as an associate judge.<\/p>\n<p>Alepuyo said women are underrepresented in both the CNMI Bar Association and the bench. To date, there is currently only one female judge\u2014Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio\u2014compared to the six male jurists in the CNMI Judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>As a woman, daughter, sister, and mother born and raised in the CNMI, Tenorio will bring with her attributes and perspectives the bench, Alepuyo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer personal and professional experiences will add to the quality and diversity of the CNMI jurists,\u201d Alepuyo said.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/279598087c1e29895a494f06a1bf2305.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Viola Alepuyo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran lawyer Viola Alepuyo has come out in support of the nomination of deputy attorney&#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-404727","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\/404727","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=404727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}