Flérida Ruth Pineda-Romero (August 1, 1929 – December 8, 2017) was an

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines ( fil, Kasangguning Mahistrado ng Kataas-taasang Hukuman ng Pilipinas) is one of fifteen members of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, the highest court in the Philippines. The C ...

. Born in

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, Romero received a law degree from the

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in 1952, and an LL.M. from the

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in 1955. Justice Romero was inducted into the Indiana University School of Law's Academy of Alumni Fellows in 1994. She was awarded an honorary LL.D. in 2000. She was Director and

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of the University of the Philippines School of Labor and Industrial Relations from 1962 to 1963. She became known as an expert on the

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and was a long-time professor at the

UP College of Law The University of the Philippines College of Law (often referred to as UP Law) is the law school of the University of the Philippines Diliman. Formally established in 1911 in UP Manila, it is the third oldest continually-operating law school ...

. In 1986, Romero became a Special Assistant to President

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, and in 1991, Aquino appointed her to replace

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in the

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. Romero assumed office on October 21, 1991, and served until her 70th birthday, August 1, 1999, at which time she was required to step down from the court due to the age limit imposed by the

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. During her service on the court, she served on the panel which began the investigation into the GSIS-Meralco bribery case.

External links

Supreme Court E-Library page on Associate Justice Flérida Ruth P. Romero
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