U.S. Senate confirms CNMI Chief Judge Manglona for second term

CNMI District Court Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 97-2 last week. She will serve a second 10-year term on the bench.

In November, Manglona appeared before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington D.C. for her confirmation hearing after being nominated by President Joe Biden.

“Judge Manglona has done credit to our community during her service on the bench; and, in my capacity as the Marianas sole representative in Congress, I recommended to President Biden that he nominate her for a second term…,” CNMI Del. Gregorio Sablan said in a media release.

Manglona was first nominated by President Barack Obama in 2009 and was renominated by President Joe Biden this year. Manglona is the first woman and Chamorro Chief Judge in the CNMI and previously served as the NMI Attorney General and an Associate Judge in the NMI Superior Court.