Ms. Esther L. Muña was appointed on April 2014, as Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation, the health agency for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Ms. Muna held other leadership roles for the Corporation and for the Department of Public Health as Chief Operations Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Hospital Administrator. Muña currently oversees strategic direction and all operations of the Commonwealth Health Center Hospital, Rota Health Center, Tinian Health Center, Public Health Services, and Behavioral Health Services. She is board certified in healthcare management as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Her leadership roles include serving as a member of the ESRD Board of Directors of the Health Services Advisory Group, Inc., as President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer, and Secretary of the Pacific Island Health Officers Association, President of AAPC Guam-CNMI Chapter, and as a member of the Health Access Policy Committee of ASTHO. She received a Master of Health Administration degree from Saint Joseph’s College of Maine and her Bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.