(As of January 5, 2004)

A ranking Division Chairman of the Court of Appeals with the following credentials:

I.       .Career jurist. Has traveled the model judicial route with unblemished integrity as a private and corporate practitioner (10 years), medalled Asst. City Fiscal of Manila (9 years), outstanding RTC Judge of Bataan and Manila (10 years) and multi-awarded Appellate Justice (10 years by 2-17-04).

II.        .Legal and judicial experience ideally complemented by (a) 8 summer studies abroad (including California Judicial College, National Judicial College in Nevada, Harvard Law School in Massachusetts, Appellate Judges Seminar in Wyoming and Academy of American & International Law in Texas) and (b) law teaching (longest-serving national president of association of law professors.

He is also a (c) lecturer on 3 Bar subjects ­ Criminal Law, Remedial Law and Practical Exercises; (d) resource person, UP Law Center Committees, Answering Bar Questions in Criminal and Remedial Law and (e) two-time seminar coordinator of World Assn. of Law Professors (W ALP).

III.     .2002 Bar Examiner in Legal Ethics and Practical Exercises and nominee of the JBC to the Supreme Court. This will be his 5th nomination.

IV.      .Skilled in legal and judicial writing. (a) Author of Bar Reviewer on Special Penal Laws and several articles published in law journals and reviews; (b) Editor of 3 judicial publications (PJA Newsletter, Bench Bulletin and CA Journal); (c) Member of the UP Law Center Board of Editors on Rules of Court in on Legal Education and Bar Matters; (c) Co-chair, SC sub-committee on Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) for Practicing Lawyers; (d) Vice­Chair, Dept. of Court Management,  Phil. Judicial Academy; (e) Founder, Campaign for Law Literacy (CALL).

V.      .Lecturer in MCLE/law seminars of the Integrated Bar (IBP), Phil. Judicial Academy (PHILJA) and Phil. Assn. of Law Professors (PALP).

VI.      .At age 65 (on 1-3-04), he is in the pink of health and peak of his productivity. Has low pending caseload; maintains ZERO balance in criminal cases. Penned significant Decisions (Ex.: Bussin v. Isnaji and Misuari, ASS-CSN v. Bon. Daway, SA TELEC II v. NLRC, etc.)

VII.    .Hails from HAGONOY, BULACAN with maternal roots in PANGASINAN. There has been NO Bulakeño in the Supreme Court for the past four / five decades.

VIII.  . Recommended  by (1) BANTAY-KATARUNGAN, (2) Women Lawyers Association of the Philippines (WLAP), (3)  Philippine Association of Law Schools (PALS), (4) Philippine Bar Association (PBA), (5) Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), etc.

IX.    .Selected Awards:  (1) 1999-97 Leadership Recognitions, Phil. Assn. of Law Schools (PALS) and 4 other law schools (2) 1996 CUP Outstanding Justice of the CA (3) 1997 Outstanding Citizen, Novaliches Foundation (4) 1998 Bulacan Province Dangal ng Lipi (5) 1999 National YMCA Presidential Awardee (6) 2000 IBP Manila IV Recognition (7) 200l New Millennium Achiever (8) 2001 Huwarang Pilipino in Law and Judiciary (9) 2002 Dangal ng Bayan,  Hagonoy, Bulacan ( 10) 2003 Recognition, Bulacan Integrated Bar.