Joaquín Cruz Pérez

Joaquín Cruz Pérez or Joaquín Pérez y Cruz (1860–1939)^[1] was an early Guam judge and acting-Governor of Guam from February 1 to April 20, 1899. He was first appointed as Justice of the Peace in 1894 by the Spanish government of Guam. After the capture of Guam by the United States during the Spanish–American War, he retained his role as a judge, sometimes unofficially. (In 1910, the United States Navy took control of the Guam courts system over an issue of intermarriage.) In 1915, the United States restored the local judiciary and Cruz Pérez was appointed as an Associate Justice in an earlier Supreme Court of Guam, not related to the present Supreme Court.

References

• http://ns.gov.gu/genealogy/1897index-p.htm
• http://www.justice.gov.gu/SuperiorHistory/hist_05.html

Governors of Guam
Commissioner (1898–99)	Glass Martínez Sisto Roberto Sisto Taussig Pérez Coe Kaiser
Naval (1899–1941)	Leary Safford Schroeder Swift Schroeder Sewell Schofield Stone Dyer McNamee Potts McNamee Dorn Freyer Salisbury Coontz Hinds Maxwell Cronan Simpson Smith Gilmer Hodgman Gilmer Wettengel Spore Althouse Miller Althouse Price Brown Shapley Bradley Root G. Alexander McCandlish J. Alexander McMillin
Military (1944–49)	Geiger Larsen Pownall
Civilian (1949–69)	Skinner Elvidge Corbett Lowe Boss Flores Daniel Guerrero C. Camacho
Elected (since 1969)	C. Camacho Bordallo P. Calvo Bordallo Ada Gutierrez F. Camacho E. Calvo