Bryan nominated Alphonso Andrews and Sigrid Tejo to Superior Court seats

Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Alphonso Andrews and Assistant Attorney General Sigrid Tejo to serve as judges on the Virgin Islands Superior Court, according to an Aug. 11, 2020 Government House announcement.

Tejo, a St. Croix native, began working in the legal field in 1992 as a paralegal and earned her law degree in 2003 from Franklin Pierce Law Center, now the University of New Hampshire Law School. She joined the Virgin Islands Department of Justice in 2009 in the Office of Collective Bargaining and moved to the Criminal Division in 2011, where she prosecuted violent crimes. In 2014, she joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office on St. Thomas, where she prosecuted firearms, drug and violent-crime cases and served as Project Safe Neighborhood coordinator for the District of the Virgin Islands.

Andrews, also a St. Croix native, graduated from Central High School and the University of the Virgin Islands and earned a law degree from the University of Maryland. He previously worked as an internal revenue agent with the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an assistant attorney general with the Virgin Islands Attorney General’s Office, a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and a judge of the Territorial Court. At the time of the announcement, he was serving as deputy chief of the Criminal Division in the St. Croix office of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Under Virgin Islands law, both nominations required confirmation by the Legislature.

Official source: https://www.vi.gov/governor-bryans-judicial-nominees-bring-decades-of-experience-to-the-bench/