CHIEF JUSTICE KATHERINE A. MARAMAN joined the Supreme Court of Guam in 2008 and first served as Chief Justice from January 2017 to January 2020. She was the first female Chief Justice of Guam. Prior to her appointment to the Supreme Court, she was a Judge for the Superior Court of Guam for 14 years beginning in 1994. She has also served as Legal Advisor to the Governor of Guam from 1988 to 1994. She worked as Assistant Legislative Counsel/Minority Counsel to the Guam Legislature from 1977 to 1987 while she was in private practice from 1977 to 1988.

Chief Justice Maraman serves as a part-time Associate Justice for the Supreme Court of Palau and as Justice Pro Tempore for the Supreme Court of the CNMI. She chairs the Guam Judicial Council; Judiciary's 2024-2027 Strategic Plan Pillar of Justice 1: Improving Court Operations; and the Committee on Self-Represented Litigants. In the past, Chief Justice Maraman has served as a Member and Officer in the Guam Law Library Board of Trustees and the Public Defender Service Corp. Board of Trustees.

Additionally, Chief Justice Maraman is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Guam.

Education: Chief Justice Maraman received a B.A. in Economics, cum laude, from Colorado College and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of New Mexico.

Appointed by: Governor Felix P. Camacho to replace Justice Frances H. Tydingco-Gatewood as a Justice of Guam. Maraman was appointed as a Judge of the Superior Court of Guam by Governor Joseph F. Ada.