Grace pulido tan biography
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Alumna Appointed Audit Commissioner
Sillimanian lawyer Maria Rowena Amelia V. Guanzon is the new Commissioner of the Commission on Audit (COA), following her appointment on March 8.
Atty. Guanzon graduated from Silliman University High School in 1974. Both parents, the late Judge Sixto Guanzon and Negros Occidental Board Member Mrs. Elvira Guanzon, were Sillimanians and among few who received the highest honors of summa cum laude. (Her father was one of the first Silliman graduates who had earned such high distinction.)
(Atty. Maria Rowena Amelia V. Guanzon takes her oath of office before Supreme Court Chief Justice Hon. Maria Lourdes P. A. Sereno. Together with her is niece Atty. Teresa Ira Maris P. Guanzon.)
Her appointment by President Benigno Aquino III makes for an all-female COA team. The COA is composed of three Commissioners, currently chaired by Atty. Grace Pulido Tan. The second Commissioner is Ms. Heide Mendoza.
Atty. Guanzon replaced Mr. Juanito Espino, Jr. Her term extends to February 2, 2020.
Not an amateur in the field of public service, Atty. Guanzon served as Mayor of Cadiz City in Negros Occidental, where she was born and raised. She was Officer-in-Charge of the Institute for the Administration of Justice of the University of the Philippines (UP)
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July 26, 2011 to July 26, 2018
Upon her retirement as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of the Philippines, Justice Conchita Carpio Morales was appointed as Ombudsman of the Republic of the Philippines in late July 2011. Her appointment was announced by President Benigno S. Aquino III during his second State of the Nation Address in July 2011, making her the fifth Ombudsman since the Office of the Ombudsman became operational in May 1988.
Ombudsman Carpio Morales graduated valedictorian in elementary and high school at Paoay Elementary School and Paoay North Institute, respectively. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1964 and Bachelor of Laws in 1968, both from the University of the Philippines (UP).
After graduation from law school, she worked at the Atienza Tabora and Del Rosario Law Offices. In 1971, she joined the Department of Justice as Special Assistant to then Justice Secretary Vicente Abad Santos. After almost 12 years at the Department of Justice, she joined the Judiciary in 1983 when President Ferdinand Marcos appointed her as Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge in Pili, Camarines Sur.
In 1986, President Corazon Aquino appointed her as RTC Judge in Pasay City. In 1994, President Fidel V. Ramos ap