Supreme Court of the Marshall Islands explained

Court Name:	Supreme Court of the Marshall Islands
Location:	Marshall Islands
Type:	Recommendation of Judicial Service Commission, appointment by the Cabinet, and approval of the Legislature
Authority:	Constitution of the Marshall Islands
Terms:	Citizens during good behavior up to age 72; noncitizens during good behavior for term of 1 year or more
Positions:	1 chief justice and optional (currently 2) associate justices
Chiefjudgetitle:	Chief Justice
Chiefjudgename:	Daniel N. Cadra
Termstart:	2013
Termend:	2023
Website:	http://rmicourts.org/

The Supreme Court is the highest court of law in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. It has final authority of all cases brought before it. It consists of a Chief Justice and two associate justices.^[1]

The Chief Justice is Daniel N. Cadra. Chief Justices are appointed for ten-year terms.^[2]

Chief Justices

Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
Harold W. Burnett	January 1982	1986-?	^[3] ^[4]
Clinton R. Ashford	1989	1996	^[5]
Allen P. Fields	1997	2003	^[6] ^[7]
Daniel Cadra	September 2003	Incumbent	^[8]

Notes and References

Web site: The RMI Judiciary . rmicourts.org . 6 July 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160613171158/http://rmicourts.org/the_judiciary.html . 13 June 2016 .
Web site: The Judiciary's Courts and Personnel . rmicourts.org . 17 December 2017.
Web site: 12 expelled from MIHS . The Marshall Islands Journal . en-AU . 31 January 2019.
Web site: State . United States Department of . Report to the United Nations on the Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Transmitted by the United States of America . en . 1985.
Book: Who's who in the West . Marquis-Who's Who. . en . 2002. 9780837909332 .
Web site: Pacific Magazine . PacificBasin Communications . en . 2004.
Web site: Marose makes history . The Marshall Islands Journal . en-AU . 28 April 2016.
Web site: Senior Judges and Staff . Republic of the Marshall Islands Judiciary.