Supreme Court of Palau

Article X of the Constitution vests the Supreme Court with judicial power and provides for its operation and jurisdiction.

Educated in Hawaii and Oregon, Justice Nakamura worked in a variety of legal capacities in Micronesia before being appointed the first Micronesian Associate Justice of the High Court of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

The building housing the Court in Koror was built by the Japanese Administration, beginning around 1922.

The basement of the building served as a jail, and a formal garden filled an interior yard.

While much of Koror was destroyed in World War II, the Court building survived.