Courts & rulings
American Samoa · highest court
High Court of American Samoa
Appointed
Chief: The Chief Justice is appointed (and designated to the office of Chief Justice) by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior; serves during good behavior..
Justices
All judges & justices →- F. Michael Kruse
- Fiti A. Sunia
Roster as of 2026-06-13.
Revised Constitution of American Samoa
Adopted 1967. Its declaration of rights sits in Article I (Bill of Rights). This court has the final word on what the American Samoa constitution means.
Not well documented
How a state reads its own rights provisions relative to the federal floor, lockstep vs departure.
State-court structure and selection methods are from official and reference sources; the justice roster is point-in-time. Civibrief carries each state's highest court (lower state courts are out of scope for now).