In the last general session of the gathering there will be brief reports from each of the ten jurisdictions on administrative team development since the PJC executive team training in Palau this past February.
A farewell lunch and the official closing will be presided over by Miguel S. Demapan, chief justice of the CNMI Supreme Court.
On Wednesday, Oct. 28, Michael Kruse, chief justice, High Court of American Samoa, was the day’s master of ceremonies, and the two morning sessions, focused on domestic violence adjudication, were led by Joan Zorza, founding editor, Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Report.
At lunch Matthew Gagelin, with the Joint Guam Program Office, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, spoke to an attentive audience including local bar association and chamber of commerce members on the transfer and associated regional effects of the American military’s personnel and facilities move from Okinawa, Japan to Guam.
In the afternoon Kathleen M. Burch, associate professor, John Marshall Law School, Atlanta, Georgia, discussed the enforcement of judgments.
The final session of the day was an interactive discussion titled “Courts as Cultural Mediators in Domestic Violence” with panelists: CNMI Judge Kenneth Govendo, FSM Justice Aliksa Aliksa, CNMI Judge Ramona Manglona, Palau Special Judge Honora E. Remengesau-Rudimch, Guam Judge Anita Sukola, U.S. District Court of Guam Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood and attorney Joan Zorza.
The Pacific Judicial Council is composed of the judiciaries of the CNMI, Guam, Palau, American Samoa, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
