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Judicial Officers of the U.S. Virgin Islands Superior Court [4] Title Name Judicial District First term began Current term ends First appointed by; Judge Harold W. L. Willocks: St. Croix 2009 2022 John P. de Jongh, Jr. Judge Kathleen Y. Mackay St. Thomas/St. John 2012 2025 John P. de Jongh, Jr. Presiding Judge Debra S. Watlington St. Thomas/St ...
The U.S. Virgin Islands legislature has 15 seats: 7 seats are for the Saint Croix District, 7 seats are for the Saint Thomas and Saint John District, and one seat is for someone who must live in Saint John. [2] The U.S. Virgin Islands have no municipalities; the only government is for the territory as a whole. [4]
It granted island natives who had been outside the Virgin Islands, but in the United States, on January 17, 1917, and February 25, 1927, to naturalize within one year by petition. It also established a District Court in the Virgin Islands which had the authority of naturalizing aliens and granted statutory federal citizenship to Virgin Islanders.
The District Court of the Virgin Islands [1] (in case citations, D.V.I.) is a United States territorial court with jurisdiction over federal and diversity actions in the United States Virgin Islands, a United States territory and more specifically an insular area that is an unincorporated organized territory.
Of the three islands, St. Thomas is the second largest, with St. Croix being the largest, and St. John, the smallest. [4] As of the 2010 census , the population of Saint Thomas was 51,634, [ 5 ] about 48.5% of the total population of the United States Virgin Islands.
The Legislature of the Virgin Islands is the territorial legislature of the United States Virgin Islands. The legislative branch of the unincorporated U.S. territory is unicameral, with a single house consisting of 15 senators, elected to two-year terms without term limits. The legislature meets in Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas.
The Revised Organic Act provides for: A unicameral (single-body) legislature of 11 (later 15) members, elected by the residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands. While this legislature largely creates the laws that govern the islands, the ultimate laws that govern are still those of the U.S. Congress, a body in which Virgin Islanders have no vote;
April 25, 2023: Act No. 8702: An Act honoring and commending former Senator George E. Goodwin, by naming the Cricket field in Estate Nazareth on St. Thomas after him while awarding him the Virgin Islands Medal of Honor., [7] Act No. 8729: appropriates $700,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Health for the Caribbean Kidney Center for ...