| He was councilor (1963) and vice mayor (1968-1971) of Binan, Laguna. He was also the company lawyer of FilHomes Realty Development until 1980.
His judiciary career began in 1986 when he was appointed as Presiding Judge of Branch 118, Regional Trial Court of Pasay City. He was promoted to Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals in 1994. Justice Vasquez had been acting as Presiding Justice of the CA since August of 2007 (when the former Presiding Justice, Ruben Reyes, was promoted to Supreme Court) before he was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as the new Presiding Justice in November 2007.
On the other hand, Justice Chico-Nazario holds the honor of being the first woman Justice in the Sandiganbayan and its first woman Presiding Justice. She started out as the social secretary of the late Secretary of Justice Juan Liwag after graduating from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1962. She was appointed to the Supreme Court on February 10, 2004.
Born in San Miguel, Bulacan, Justice Nazario is the current president of the Philippine Women Judges Association. She was the Criminal Law Bar Examiner for the year 2000.
Justice Nazario was appointed Division Clerk of Court of the Sandiganbayan’s First Division and was appointed Regional Trial Court Judge of Binan, Laguna. She was also a professor of law at the University of Perpetual Help Las Pinas campus from 1994-1997. She has more than 40 years of uninterrupted service in government prior to her Supreme Court appointment. end of news |
