Michael Cruz

Michael Warren Cruz is a Guamanian surgeon and former politician, born on 8 September 1958 to a Chamorro father and a Filipino mother. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology at Walla Walla College in Washington state and a Doctor of Medicine at Loma Linda University in California. As a surgeon he served as medical director of the Guam Memorial Hospital, is a member of the American Board of Surgery and the American Society of Breast Surgeons, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. A colonel in the Guam Army National Guard and a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, he commanded a Rapid Advanced Medical Team during the Iraq War from 2003 to 2004 and received the Bronze Star Medal. He served as the eighth lieutenant governor of Guam from 2007 to 2011 and was appointed adjutant general of the Guam National Guard in 2023.