The United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands is the

United States Attorney United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts. Each U.S. attorney serves as the United States' chief federal ...

responsible for representing the federal government in civil and criminal litigation before the

United States territorial court The United States territorial courts are tribunals established in territories of the United States by the United States Congress, pursuant to its power under Article Four of the United States Constitution, the Territorial Clause. Most Unit ...

s of the

District Court of Guam The District Court of Guam (in case citations, D. Guam) is a United States territorial court with jurisdiction over the United States territory of Guam. It sits in the capital, Hagåtña. Appeals of the court's decisions are taken to the United S ...

, whose jurisdiction is the Territory of

Guam Guam (; ch, Guåhan ) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. It is the westernmost point and territory of the United States (reckoned from the geographic cent ...

, and the

District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands The District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands (in case citations, D. N. Mar. I.) is a federal territorial court whose jurisdiction comprises the United States-affiliated Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). It was establi ...

, whose jurisdiction is the United States Commonwealth of the

Northern Mariana Islands The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; ch, Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; cal, Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas), is an unincorporated territory and commonw ...

(CNMI), encompassing the main islands of Saipan,

Tinian Tinian ( or ; old Japanese name: 天仁安島, ''Tenian-shima'') is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Together with uninhabited neighboring Aguiguan, it forms Tinian Municipality, one of the ...

and Rota as well as the mostly uninhabited "Northern Islands" of the Commonwealth. Although the Territory of Guam and the CNMI are separate political entities and federal judicial districts, since 1978 the law has authorized the appointment of one United States Attorney to serve both. This situation is unique within the entire United States. The U.S. Attorney maintains offices in

Hagåtña, Guam Hagåtña (; ; formerly in English: Agana , in Spanish: Agaña) is the capital village of the United States territory of Guam. From the 18th through mid-20th century, it was Guam's population center, but today it is the second smallest of the ...

and in Gualo Rai, Saipan.

List of U.S. Attorneys for the District of Guam and the *District of the Northern Mariana Islands

*James G. Mackey: 1950 - 1952* *John P. Raker: 1952 - 1954* *Herbert G. Homme, Jr.: 1954 - 1962* *James Pace Alger: 1962 - 1969* *Duane K. Craske: 1969 - 1975* *Ralph F. Bagley: 1975 - 1977* *David T. Wood: 1977 - 1986 *K. William O'Connor: 1986 - 1989 *D. Paul Vernier: 1989 - 1991 *Frederick A. Black: 1991 - 2003 * Leonardo Matias Rapadas: June 2003 - June 2010 * Alicia Anne Garrido Limtiaco: 21 June 2010 - 10 March 2017 *Shawn N. Anderson: 4 January 2018 - present *Prior to 1978, incumbents did not hold both offices, as the latter had not been created.

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List of U.S. Attorneys for the District of Guam and the *District of the Northern Mariana Islands

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