Personal life Juan Pan Guerrero was born on December 10, 1949, at the
United States Naval Hospital, in
Maturana Hill,
Saipan. He was the sixth of the twelve children of parents, Herman Reyes Guerrero and Maria Camacho Tenorio. Guerrero attended Mt. Carmel School on Saipan for elementary school. He attended high school at both
Father Dueñas Memorial School, a
Roman Catholic school for boys in
Guam, and
Rhodes Preparatory School in New York City. Guerrero also enrolled at
Miami Dade Junior College and the
Nebraska Business College for college. He resides in
Gualo Rai,
Saipan, the
Northern Mariana Islands.
Career Guerrero is the president of chairman of several CNMI based businesses, including Juan T. Guerrero & Associates, Inc. since 1991, the president and general manager of Herman's Modern Bakery, Inc. since 1972, and the president of the Insurance & Business Management Corporation since 1982. Guerrero was elected to the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives, where he served from 1984 to 1985 during the 4th Commonwealth Legislature. During his time in the House, Guerrero served as the chairman on the CNMI House Committee on
Appropriations. He was later elected to the
Northern Mariana Islands Senate from 1986 to 1990 during the 5th and 6th Commonwealth Legislatures. He was a member of the Committee on Resources and Economic Development and the Special Investigatory Committee while in the Senate. Juan Pan Guerrero was appointed to a four-year term on the Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund
board of trustees in December 2006. He was elected the chairman of the board of trustees in 2007. In a joint announcement on March 10, 2009, Guerrero announce that Republican
Representative Joe Camacho will be his
running mate in the
2009 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election. Guerrero, who has campaigned to make the NMI easier to do business, said the most important issues facing the Northern Mariana Islands are the economy, relations with the
United States federal government, health care, government efficiency, the NMI Retirement Fund, education, the decline in tourism and infrastructure. Guerrero told the Bar that he supports a new, appointed
Attorney General position should be created in the CNMI, with autonomous powers like the
public auditor. He stated that politics should not be a consideration in the appointment of judges. On the issue of the U.S. federal government takeover of the Northern Mariana Islands immigration, Guerrero stated that the issue was too important for the government to pick an "arbitrary deadline" for federalization to take effect. Governor Fitial had filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government to stop the federalization of immigration. Guerrero said that the CNMI government should use its own government lawyers in the suit, instead of hiring private attorneys using taxpayer money. ==References==