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Northern Mariana Islands Commission on Federal Laws Appointment of Six Members.

February 16, 1980

The President today announced the appointment of six persons as members of the Northern Mariana Islands Commission on Federal Laws. They are:

JESUS BORJA, of Saipan, Mariana Islands, the assistant director of Micronesian Legal Services Corporation;

JAMES A. JOSEPH, Under Secretary of the Interior. He will serve as Chairman of the Commission;

AGNES MANGLONA McPHETRES, of Saipan, Mariana Islands, a researcher for the Northern Marianas Vocational Advisory Council, responsible for the identification of employment and training needs in the Northern Marianas;

EDWARD PANGELINAN, the elected representative to the United States for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. He was chairman of the Marianas Political Status Commission, which negotiated the Covenant to Establish the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States;

PEDRO AGULTO TENORIO, of Saipan, Mariaria Islands, executive director of the Marianas Public Land Corporation, formerly special adviser for executive and Federal relations to the Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature;

MYRON B. THOMPSON, of Honolulu, trustee of the Kamhemaha Schools/Bishop Estate, formerly Hawaii State administrative director in the office of the Governor of Hawaii and director of the Hawaii Department of Social Services and Housing.

Jimmy Carter, Northern Mariana Islands Commission on Federal Laws Appointment of Six Members. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250197

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