Jude Untalan Hofschneider (born September 12, 1966) is a Northern Marianan politician currently serving as the President of the Northern Mariana Islands Senate since January 11, 2021, and previously from January 14, 2013 to February 20, 2013. He also served as the 9th

Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands has a self-governing government consisting of a locally elected governor, lieutenant governor and the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature. Incumbent Governor Eloy S. Inos died ...

from February 20, 2013 to January 12, 2015. He was automatically elevated to this position on February 20, 2013, when the former lieutenant governor, Eloy S. Inos, assumed the

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Background and personal life

Hofschneider graduated from Reynolds High School at Troutdale, Oregon in 1988. His initial civil service job was as a soil and water conservation coordinator. He went on to receive an

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from

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in 1996. Hofschneider then served as an environmental specialist in the

Tinian Tinian ( or ; old Japanese name: 天仁安島, ''Tenian-shima'') is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Together with uninhabited neighboring Aguiguan, it forms Tinian Municipality, one of the ...

Department of Public Works, and later the deputy director of that agency. Enrolled with University of Phoenix on-line curriculum.

Political career

Municipal office

In 2004, Hofschneider was elected to the Tinian & Aguiguan Municipal Council. He served for two years on the Association of Mariana Islands Mayors and Municipal Councilors (AMIM).

Commonwealth Legislature

In 2006, Hofschneider won election to the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature as a senator. In his seven years serving with that body, he acted in a variety of roles. From 2010 to 2013 he was the vice president of the Senate. In January 2013, he won election to the presidency of the Senate.

Lieutenant governorship

Hofschneider took up the lieutenant governorship in February 2013. He served as acting governor while the governor was out of the commonwealth. His term ended in 2015.

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