The traditional civil promotion of the Legion of Honor on January 1 distinguished 731 personalities.
In this list, there are about twenty people from or having worked in the Overseas Territories. Only one personality - who came to Saint-Martin in February 2013, welcomed by the former president of the Collectivity Alain Richardson - is elevated to the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honor: Marcelle Pierrot, Honorary Prefect of Guadeloupe . The former state representative in Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy announced in November 2014 her retirement, after two years of work. It was Jacques Billant, knight of the Legion of Honor and officer of the National Order of Merit, who had been appointed to replace her. _EH
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