Superior COURT

Presiding Judge Roberto C. Naraja wasborn on July 17,1955 in Saipan.He received hisB.S.in Political Science from CaliforniaLutheran College in 1979 and graduated with hisJurisDoctor from Gonzaga UniversitySchool of Law in 1982.

After receiving hislaw degree,Presiding Judge Naraja served asAssistant Legal Counsel to the CNMI Resident Representative to Washington,D.C.He subsequently worked asan Assistant PublicDefender and then asan Assistant AttorneyGeneral.Presiding Judge Naraja has also served asboth the Chief PublicDefender and the AttorneyGeneral.Thereafter,Presiding Judge Naraja ventured into private practice establishing hisown law firm.

Judge Kenneth L. Govendo wasborn in Syracuse, New York on January28,1945.In 1966,he graduated with hisBachelor of Artsdegree in Political Science from Alfred Universityin Alfred,New York.In 1969,he obtained hisJurisDoctor from the Universityof Toledo College of Law.

After law school,Judge Govendo became a general practitioner in Redondo Beach,California,and worked part-time asa senior staff attorney for the Legal Aid Foundation of the South Bar Association.He served as District Attorneyin Palau and asAssistant Attorney General on Saipan during the Trust Territoryperiod.He also served asAssistant Legislative Counsel for the Fifth Northern MarianasDistrict Legislature and was legal counsel for the Department of Natural Resources, Board of Elections,and Civil Service Commission.

Judge Joseph N. Camacho graduated from Northern MarianasCollege,with hisAssociatesdegree.He went on to obtain a Bachelor of Artsin Historyfrom San Jose State University,a Mastersof PublicAdministration from Seattle University,and a JurisDoctor from Gonzaga UniversitySchool of Law.

Judge Camacho served asa prosecutor for the CNMI Office of AttorneyGeneral before establishing hisown law firm with hiswife,who isalso an attorney.He was admitted to practice law in the US.Supreme Court,the U.S.Court of Appealsfrom the Ninth Circuit,the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands,and the Commonwealth Courts.

Judge Teresa K. Kim-Tenorio ascended to the bench on December 22,2013.In 1997,she earned her Bachelor of Artsdegree in English from the College of Literature,Science,and the Arts,Universityof Michigan in Ann Arbor.In May of 2001,she graduated from New England School of Law with her JurisDoctor degree and islicensed to practice law in the State of Michigan, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United StatesDistrict Court for the Eastern District of Michigan,the United StatesDistrict Court for the Northern Mariana Islands,the United StatesCourt of Appealsfor the 9th Circuit.

In 2015,Judge Kim-Tenorio actively participated alongside other justice professionalsin the implementation of the first-ever Drug Court program in the CNMI.Her Honor overseesthe program asthe initial Drug Court judge.

Judge Wesley M. Bogdan ascended to the bench in August 2017.He islicensed with the CNMI Bar and holdsan inactive license statusin New Mexico.After receiving a Bachelor of Artsdegree in Businessand Political Science from the Universityof Texas, Judge Bogdan returned to hishome in New Mexico and completed hisJurisDoctorate degree at the University of New Mexico School of Law.He then worked asa Judicial Clerk for the New Mexico Court of Appealsin Albuquerque from 1992 to 1994.

Judge Bogdan first joined the Northern Marianas communityin 1994.He served asboth an Assistant PublicDefender and an Assistant Attorney General for the CNMI before moving to private practice for several years.From 2009 to 2012,Judge Bogdan worked asthe DeputyDirector of the Legal Department and for the Acting President of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in KualaLumpur,Malaysia.

Judge Bogdan isa National Judicial College Certified Mediator and also served in the past asa member of the CNMI Bar Association DisciplinaryCommittee and asthe Chairman of the CNMI Bar Association

Continuing Legal Education Committee.He hasa SpecialtyCertificate in Environmental Law from the Universityof New Mexico School of Law and has graduated from the National Criminal Defense College Trial Practice Institute program.

Tina V. Ngo, Law Clerk to Presiding Judge Roberto C. Naraja,earned her J.D.from the University of California, BerkeleySchool of Law and her B.A.,summa cum laude, from the University of California,Berkeley.Prior to joining the CNMI Judiciary, Tina worked asa litigation associate in the San Francisco officesof Alston & Bird LLP and Baker BottsLLP,where she focused on a broad range of civil litigation mattersincluding antitrust and intellectual property.Prior to that,she worked asa judicial extern for the United StatesDistrict Court, Northern District of California.Tina served asthe Vice President of the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California in 2021 and 2020.In 2018,she wasnamed ?Outstanding Volunteer?bythe Bar Association of San Francisco for her commitment to pro bono work.

Rellani B. Ogumoro, Law Clerk to Associate Judge Kenneth L. Govendo,isa Saipan native and obtained her Bachelor of Science in Anthropology/Sociologyand minor in Gender Studiesfrom Eastern Oregon University where she wasnamed a 2011 Truman Scholar.Before law school,Ms.Ogumoro worked at the U.S.Department of Interior and asa policyadvisor under the Special Assistant to the President-Native American Affairsin the President Obama White House.Ms.Ogumoro then went to Arizona State UniversitySandra Day O?Connor College of Law for her JurisDoctor with a Certificate in the Indian Legal Program.

Keith D. Chambers II, Law Clerk to Associate Judge Joseph N.Camacho,served as Judge Camacho'slaw clerk until January 31,2023.Since then,Keith opened hisown law firm,ChambersLaw,LLC. He graduated from Florida State Universityand went to George Washington University Law School.

Greg P. Cenac, Law Clerk to Associate Judge Teresa K. Kim-Tenorio,haslived in variousplaces,although his immediate familycurrently livesin Ocean Springs, Mississippi.He received his undergraduate degree in International Affairsfrom the Universityof ColoradoBoulder,hisJurisDoctor from the George Washington UniversityLaw School and his L.L.M.in Admiraltyand Maritime Law from Tulane UniversityLaw School.He iscurrentlylicensed to practice law in Colorado and the CNMI.He haslived in Saipan for almost two yearsand plansto stayfor the foreseeable future.He enjoysfreediving,chess,hiking, and traveling.

Kara L. Woods,Law Clerk to Associate Judge WesleyM. Bogdan,hasbeen Judge Bogdan?slaw clerk since February2022.She received her undergraduate degree in Sociocultural Anthropology from Brigham Young Universityin 2017and went on to earn her JurisDoctorate from Sandra Day O?Conner College of Law in 2021.During law school she had the opportunityto complete internshipswith the Ateno Human RightsCenter in the Philippinesand the Judicial System Monitoring Program in Timor-Leste.Kara islicensed to practice law in Washington D.C.and hasa passion for completing volunteer work with teensand kids.