Ricardo de Rivera Rosario (born October 15, 1958) is an associate justice of the

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. He was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte to replace Associate Justice Jose Reyes Jr.

Education

Rosario received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the

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Legal career

He started his career in law as a legal officer of the National Bureau of Investigation, and thereafter as senior corporate attorney in the

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Judicial career

Trial court judge

Rosario was appointed senior assistant city prosecutor in

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in 1994, where he served for three years. Rosario became the presiding judge of Manila Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 19 in 1997, then later as presiding judge of the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 66 until he was promoted to the Court of Appeals in September 2005.

Appellate court

On September 12, 2005, he was appointed Associate Justice of the

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by then-President

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. Rosario was Chairman of The Court of Appeals' Ninth Division. He held the position for 15 years until his appointment to the

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in 2020.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

On October 8, 2020, President

Rodrigo Duterte Rodrigo Roa Duterte (, ; born March 28, 1945), also known as Digong, Rody, and by the initials DU30 and PRRD, is a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022. He is the chairperson ...

appointed Rosario Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Rosario filled the post vacated by Supreme Court Associate Justice Jose Reyes Jr., who had retired that September. He was chosen out of six other potential candidates, Court of Appeals (CA) Associate Justices Ramón Cruz, Japar Dimaampao, Jhosep López, Eduardo Peralta Jr., and María Filomena Singh, as well as Court Administrator Midas Márquez.

References

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