Ms. Lujan is the Federal Public Defender for the Districts of Guam and the NMI. Her over 20 years of practice has focused on criminal law.After graduating in 1992 from the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, Ms. Lujan clerked in the criminal motions division of the First Circuit Court of Hawaii on Oahu. In 1994, she joined the State of Hawaii Office of the Public Defender and worked in the Oahu and Maui offices, where she exclusively practiced criminal law and served as a member of the Maui Drug Court Steering Committee to implement and oversee the Maui Drug Court Program.

In 2005, Ms. Lujan entered private practice in Hawaii and defended criminal cases on… Read More

Ms. Kottke is a Senior Litigator for the Districts of Guam and the NMI.  She began her career in criminal defense in 2005 as a paralegal with the Montana State Public Defender’s Office after working for the United States Senate Committee on Finance in Washington, DC.  In 2008, Ms. Kottke attended the University of Montana School of Law where she graduated with honors and an emphasis in criminal defense in 2011.  During law school, she interned with the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Montana and was a member of the Criminal Defense Clinic, where her passion for indigent criminal defense was reaffirmed.  She is a published author on the subject of government cell… Read More

Mr. Spotanski was born and raised in Guam and serves as an Assistant Federal Public Defender. Before entering the legal profession, he served in the United States Marine Corps from 2011 to 2016. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2019 and his law degree from the University of California, Davis School of Law in 2022. 

Since graduating from law school, he has devoted nearly all of his practice to criminal defense. His experience includes participating in trials before the Superior Court of Guam and presenting oral arguments before the Supreme Court of Guam. Having grown up on Guam, he is grateful for the opportunity to return home and… Read More