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 Ch ...
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Born in
Tondo, Manila
Tondo is a district located in Manila, Philippines. It is the largest in terms of area and population of Manila's sixteen districts, with a Census-estimated 631,313 people in 2015 and consists of two congressional districts. It is also the seco ...
, Romero received a law degree from the
University of the Philippines College of Law
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in 1952, and an
LL.M. from the
Indiana University Maurer School of Law 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
Civil Code of the Philippines
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and was a long-time professor at the
UP College of Law.
In 1986, Romero became a Special Assistant to President
Corazon Aquino, and in 1991, Aquino appointed her to replace
Abraham Sarmiento in the
Supreme Court of the Philippines. 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
Constitution of the Philippines. 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
1929 births
2017 deaths
People from Tondo, Manila
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Filipino women lawyers
Filipino women judges
20th-century women judges
20th-century Filipino judges
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