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PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has designated Justice Juliet Manalo-San Gaspar as his first appointee in the Sandiganbayan.
Manalo-San Gaspar, whose appointment was announced by Malacañang on Friday, took her oath as newly appointed associate justice of the anti-graft court before Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo at the Supreme Court En Banc Session Hall.
She will take on the post vacated by former associate justice Alex Quiroz, who optionally retired on Aug. 2, 2022.
Manalo-San Gaspar graduated valedictorian from the University of the East and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2000.
Her extensive career in the Judiciary began in 2010 as the presiding judge of the Metropolitan Trial Court, Branch 18 of Manila.
She went on to serve as presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 279 of Mandaluyong City, where she was eventually appointed executive judge in 2020 until her appointment to the Sandiganbayan.
3 new CA associate justices
Apart from Manalo-San Gaspar, the President named three new associate justices to the Court of Appeals (CA) and a Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) associate justice.
The newly appointed justices for the CA are Ma. Consejo Mapa Gengos-Ignalaga, Raymond Joseph Guevarra Javier, and Lorna Francisca Catris Chua Cheng.
Gengos-Ignalaga has assumed the seat left vacant by the compulsory retirement of Justice Manuel Barrios, who retired on Nov. 29, 2022.
Javier now fills the post held by Justice Loida Posadas-Kahulugan, who retired on Jan. 19, 2023, while Cheng has taken over the seat previously occupied by Justice Maria Filomena Singh, who was appointed to the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the President also named Henry Sumaway Angeles a CTA associate justice, succeeding Erlinda Uy.
The recent appointments were only the second set of associate justices appointed by Marcos to the judiciary.
In October 2022, the President picked his first judicial appointees: Associate Justices Selma Palacio-Alaras and Wilhelmina Jorge-Wagan for the CA and Associate Justice Corazon Ferrer-Flores for the CTA.
Under Philippine laws, the President has the power to pick justices for the CA, CTA, Sandiganbayan and even the Supreme Court — usually from a short list of nominees from the Judicial and Bar Council.
— Catherine S. Valente
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