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Attorney General of Guam

Office in the Judiciary of Guam

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ56064310 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Office of the Attorney General of Guam aims to serve, protect, and represent the government and the people by enforcing the laws of Guam and the United States. The Office is composed of the following divisions:

Administration Division

Prosecution Division

Litigation Division

Solicitors Division

Consumer Counsel Division

Juvenile Division

Child Support Enforcement Division (CSED)

List of attorneys general (1971-present)

Appointed

Gubernatorially appointed through 2002.

Elected

Popularly elected since 2003.

Editorial summary

“Attorney General of Guam” enters the record as office in the Judiciary of Guam. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Attorney, General and Guam can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Attorney General of Guam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.