COURTROOM ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS

Staff Training And Professional Development

The annual Professional Development Conference washeld on November 21-22,2022 at the Kensington Hotel. Staff with exemplarycommitment and accomplishmentsthroughout the year were recognized,including Deputy Clerk III Novelyn Wania-Tenorio,who wasawarded the Employee of the Year for the Office of the Clerk of Court.

TABLE17. TRAININGS

DATE DESCRIPTION

02/18/2022 ADRand E-Filing Rule Training

CONDUCTED BY

Supreme Court Law Clerk MaryE.Novakovic

Supreme Court Law Clerk Keith H.Ketola 05/13/2022 Supreme Court RulesTraining Supreme Court Clerk of Court JudyT.Aldan 06/10/2022 MunisTraining

ARPAAdministrator Martha M.Standish

Budget and Finance Director John T.Villagomez

Case Filing

The chartsand graphsbelow provide the data collected from January1,2022,to December 31,2022.

The EthnicityReport detailsthe ethnicityof defendantsand plaintiffsin all civil,criminal,traffic,and small claimscaseswho appeared before the Superior Court between January 1 to December 31,2022.The information wasextracted from the Justware Case Management System which storesall the case information,including ethnicity.Thischart also providesthe information on the FreelyAssociated Statescontact with the court system,ascompared to other ethnic backgrounds.

*Doesnot identifywith any ethnicity.

*CNMI includesChamorro and Caroliniansonly.

**Othersinclude American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian or PacificIslander,Bangladesh,Chinese, Caucasian,Japanese,Korean,Thai,and Russian.