CHIEF JUSTICE TORRES FIRST FROM GUAM TO BE NAMED TO

AMERICAN JUDGES ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Oct. 13, 2016) (Guam Judicial Center Hagta, Guam) Guam Supreme
Court Chief Justice Robert J. Torres has been selected to be a member of the
American Judges Association (AJA) Executive Board. This marks the first
time that a judge from Guam has been selected to sit on this executive board.
Chief Justice Torres was previously elected to the Board of Governors and at
this years annual conference in Toronto Canada, he was recommended to serve
a one year term on the Executive Committee by the new AJA President Justice
Russell Otter, the first Canadian president of the AJA. The AJA Board of
Governors unanimously approved Chief Justice Torres.

The AJA is the largest judges organization in North America representing all
levels of courts and jurisdictions in the United States and Canada and
elsewhere. It has over 3,000 members comprised of judges of courts of all
jurisdictions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, American
Samoa, the Virgin Islands and Guam.
It was created to promote and improve the effective administration of justice, to
maintain the status and independence of the judiciary, to provide a forum for
the continuing education of its members and the general public, and to
exchange new ideas among all judges. The AJA has helped to improve judicial
education by helping to organize the American Academy of Judicial Education.
To help fulfill its mandate of making better judges through quality education
programs and publications, the AJA organizes outstanding mid-year and annual
conferences. While attending the annual conference in Toronto, Chief Justice
Torres gave a multi-media presentation on judicial ethics and social media.
Building on his technological skills, his honor was able to engage the audience
in real time with a novel application that allowed participation, responses and

comments through the use of mobile phones and laptops. This application had
not been previously used during an AJA conference and the real time polling
transformed the traditional one way lecture into two way conversation.

For more information, please contact Clynt Ridgell at 300-7954 or

cridgell@guamcourts.org.
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