Ana S.M. Cornwell

Ana S.M. Cornwell Law Clerk Superior Court of Guam Judiciary of Guam

Ana S.M. Cornwell currently serves the Superior Court of Guam as a law clerk for the Honorable Vernon P. Perez. As a law clerk, she performs a wide range of tasks, which include researching legal issues; drafting memoranda, decision and orders, findings of fact and conclusions of law; assisting with courtroom proceedings, criminal jury trials, civil and domestic bench trials; managing Judge Perez’s criminal and civil case dockets; and training new Superior Court law clerks. Ana frequently participates in career day and school outreach activities; she has given presentations to elementary and middle school students on various legal topics and coached high school mock trial.

Ana graduated from St. John’s School in 2005 and attended the University of Guam, graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and a minor in English in 2009. At UOG, Ana was a teaching assistant for the Sociology Department, President of Triton’s Society, a Regent Scholar, and part of a core group of students who, as the result of the 2007 Bali field school, produced a film entitled “Casting Our Net: Rediscovering Community in the 21st Century,” which has been screened locally and internationally.

After graduation, Ana traveled to Haifa, Israel as a religious volunteer for the Bahá’í Faith for eighteen months. Upon her return to Guam, Ana taught writing and communication courses as an adjunct professor at Guam Community College as part of the Adult High School Education Program.

Ana received her Juris Doctor degree in 2015 from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and graduated with a certificate in Environmental Law. While in law school, she was a technical editor for the University of Hawaii Law Review and a board member for Law for Youth Empowerment, which facilitated and developed legal empowerment and education classes at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility and Detention Home. Ana spent her last semester of law school on Guam externing for the Public Defender Service Corporation and began working at the Superior Court of Guam in the fall of 2015.

Ana is licensed to practice law on Guam.