Monday, May 17, 2010

Who is Justice Renato Corona

To much contreveries with the appointment of Justice Corona.. Who is he? and why noynoy objecting in his appointment..Maybe the answer lies in this short article from Inquirer..


Corona was appointed associate justice by Arroyo on April 9, 2002. He graduated law from the Ateneo Law School in 1974. While studying, he also worked full time in the Office of the Executive Secretary. He ranked 25th in the 1974 Bar exams out of 1,965 candidates.

After law school, Corona studied Master of Business Administration at the Ateneo Professional Schools and in 1981, he was accepted to the Master of Laws program in Harvard Law School, where he focused on foreign investment policies and the regulation of corporate and financial institutions.

In 1992, he joined President Fidel Ramos as assistant executive secretary for legal affairs. Two years later, he was promoted deputy executive secretary and eventually became the presidential legal counsel.

After Ramos, he was invited by then Vice President Arroyo to become her chief of staff and spokesman. When she assumed the presidency in 2001, he became the presidential chief of staff, spokesman, and later as acting executive secretary.
He became a faculty of Ateneo Law School, teaching Commercial law, Taxation and Corporation law.

He was born on Oct. 15, 1948 in Tanauan City, Batangas. He is married to former Cristina Roco and they have three children.

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