Mamoru Nakamura

Mamarou Nakamura was a Palauan jurist. Nakamura was a founder of Palau's court system—which he based on the judiciary of the United States—and served as the first chief justice of Palau from 1981 to his death in 1992. He was the first Micronesian person appointed to serve as a justice of the High Court of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, from 27 October 1977 to 1988.