Felicidad Ogumoro

Felicidad Leiwamal Taman Ogumoro (September 1, 1949 – January 2024) was a politician from the Northern Mariana Islands.

[1][2] She was born into a poor Carolinian family on Saipan, the daughter of Daniel Rogolifoi Ogumoro and Estefania Taman; she is the eldest of eight children.

During her childhood, she trained to become a member of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy and attended Mt.

[3] She and Serafina Rosario King was the first woman to serve in the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives.

[9] After her first tenure in the legislature, she organized Western Pacific Associates, Micronesia's first locally owned public relations and business consulting firm.

[4] In the 1990s, she led a small nationalist group called Inetnon Taotao Tano which opposed foreign development in the CNMI.

[12][13] Governor Juan Babauta nominated Ogumoro to the Commonwealth Ports Authority board of directors in 2005.