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In November 2007, Ford was Convenor of the 17th Biennial Pacific Judicial Conference in Nuku’alofa which was attended by over 50 judges from around the Pacific, including 21 chief justices. In August 2008, Ford was made a Knight Commander of the Order of Queen Sālote Tupou III by the King of Tonga, George Tupou V .
The judiciary was strengthened over the following years, and as of 2013 RAMSI maintains "19 long-term advisers supporting the Solomon Islands judicial system". [4] Like that of most Pacific island countries, Solomon Islands' court system relies partly on foreign judges, from other common law countries.
In 1979 he went to the South Pacific, where he first worked in Fiji for six and a half years. He then served as a judge on the Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands where, from circa 1988 to 1992, he was Chief Justice. [2] He then moved to Tonga to become Chief Justice of Tonga and a judge of the Supreme Court of Tonga. [3]
This was a supra-colonial entity established by the Western Pacific Orders-in-Council 1877 (amended in 1879 and 1880), and by the Pacific Order-in-Council 1893. [ note 1 ] Headed by a High Commissioner for the Western Pacific , who was also ex officio the Governor of Fiji , until the end of 1952, it included numerous islands, mostly small ...
He also served on two committees of the Judicial Conference of the United States: the Advisory Panel on Financial Disclosure Reports and Judicial Activities (subsequently renamed the Advisory Committee on Codes of Conduct) from 1979 to 1987, and the Committee on Pacific Territories from 1979 to 1990, which he chaired from 1982 to 1990. [8]
The First Pan Pacific Conference on Education, Rehabilitation, Reclamation and Recreation was held in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii from April 11 to 16, 1927. Convened by President Calvin Coolidge, it was the first official conference held in Honolulu called by the head of a Pacific government. [1]
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Susan Naomi Oki Mollway (born November 6, 1950) [1] is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the first East Asian woman and Japanese-American woman ever appointed to a life-time position on the federal bench.