Editing Jay Warren (section)

==Political roles==

Jay Warren was elected [[List of rulers of the Pitcairn Islands|mayor]] of the last remaining [[British dependency]] in [[Oceania]] in the [[2004 Pitcairn Islands election|general election]] held on 15 December 2004,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/152333/pitcairn-islanders-elect-new-mayor-and-council |title=Pitcairn Islanders elect new Mayor and Council |publisher=[[RNZ]] |date=16 December 2004 |access-date=19 February 2022}}</ref> defeating [[Brenda Christian]], who had held the mayoralty in an interim capacity following the dismissal from the post of her brother, [[Steve Christian]], by the British authorities on 30 October 2004, following his [[Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004|rape]] convictions. Warren was expected to take up his duties sometime around Christmas, when he was to return from [[Tahiti]], where his daughter Darylynn was hospitalized and recovering from a [[longboat]] accident in which her arm was nearly severed. Besides Darylynn, he has another child, Charlene.

Jay Warren was no stranger to the post to which he was elected. From 1 January 1991 to 31 December 1999, he served in an almost identical capacity as ''Magistrate,'' as the chief elected official was known prior to a constitutional revision in 1999. Previously, after a brief stint as a member of the [[Island Council (Pitcairn)|Island Council]] in 1982, he had assumed the second-most influential position on the island in 1985, as chairman of the ''Internal Committee.''  He continued to hold this office up to his election to the office of magistrate in late 1990.

As magistrate throughout most of the 1990s, Warren had executive, legislative, and judicial authority, serving ''ex officio'' as chairman of the [[Island Council (Pitcairn)|Island Council]], which doubles as the dependency's legislature and court. Following the constitutional review and the replacement of the magistrate by a mayor in 1999, [[Steve Christian]] was elected to the new position. Warren remained politically active, however, and served two further terms (in 2000 and 2002) as chairman of the Internal Committee.

Warren's election to the mayoralty in 2004 was welcomed by British Deputy Governor Matthew Forbes. "We appointed Jay as chairman of the (island's) internal committee in the period after the trials and before this election," Forbes told [[Radio New Zealand]] from his office at the British High Commission (the equivalent of an embassy in [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries) in [[Wellington]]. "He's very experienced and I'm sure he'll make a very good mayor."

He was succeeded by [[Mike Warren (mayor)|Mike Warren]] as mayor in December 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/174492/pitcairn-has-a-new-mayor |title=Pitcairn has a new Mayor |publisher=[[RNZ]] |date=13 December 2007 |access-date=19 February 2022}}</ref>