Attorney Stephen Hattori has been named the new executive director of the Guam Public Defender Service Corporation. Hattori fills the vacancy after the retirement of Attorney Eric Miller.

Hattori has nearly 20 years of experience as a criminal trial attorney for the public defender and the alternate public defender and also served on several judicial committees.

He is also the first Chamorro to serve at the helm of the Public Defense Service Corporation. Hattori will officially start on March 14.