Yosiwo George

Yosiwo Palikkun George (24 July 1941 – 13 August 2022

Biography George was born in Kosrae. He studied in the Universities of Guam and Hawaii and graduated in 1969. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Kosrae from 1979 to 1980, and then director of the Department of Social Services which oversaw the education, health and social services systems of Micronesia. In 1997 George was elected to Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia where he served until 2001. He was then appointed as chief justice for the Kosrae State Supreme Court until 2006. He died from complications of COVID-19 in August 2022, at the age of 81.