Romeo Aliac Brawner (September 17, 1935 – May 29, 2008) was a Filipino public official who served as a Commissioner of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) from 2005 until his death from a heart attack in May 2008. From February to March 2008, he served as the Acting Chairman of the COMELEC, by virtue of his being the most senior Commissioner on the commission, replacing

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on the February 2, 2008 after the latter had retired. Brawner earned his

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from the

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in 1959. He entered the Philippine judiciary in 1975 as a trial court judge in

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. In 1995, he was appointed by

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as a Justice of the

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. In 2005, President

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appointed Brawner as Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals. Immediately upon his retirement from the Court of Appeals, having reached the compulsory retirement age of 70, President Arroyo named Brawner as Commissioner of the COMELEC. Prior to his appointment as a Baguio City Court judge and later, as Regional Trial Court Judge of Branch 10 in La Trinidad,

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(January 1987 to August 1995), he served as a public prosecutor for 11 years, and was also a professor of law at the Baguio Colleges Foundation (

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), from 1971 to 1995. Also a native of

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, he was a Bureau of Internal Revenue collection agent and a Knight of Columbus member. He was conferred the Chief Justice Jose Laurel Judicial Excellence Award as outstanding judge from the Foundation for Judicial Excellence in 1995. Brawner grew up in

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Members of the Brawner Commission

Assumed office: February 2, 2008 Dissolved: March 25, 2008

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brawner, Romeo A. 1935 births 2008 deaths University of the Philippines alumni 20th-century Filipino judges People from Nueva Vizcaya Commissioners of constitutional commissions of the Philippines Arroyo administration personnel Justices of the Court of Appeals of the Philippines

Members of the Brawner Commission

See also

References