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PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte appointed Deputy Court of Appeals (CA) Judge Ricardo Rosario to the Supreme Court, replacing Judge José Reyes Jr., who retired last month.
Rosario’s appointment was officially transmitted on Friday by the Executive Secretary, Salvador Medialdea, to the president of the Supreme Court Diosdado Peralta. It was signed by the president on October 8.
Rosario, 62, beat out six other candidates for the job. He was shortlisted by the Judicial and Lawyers Council along with the Administrator of the Court José Midas Márquez and the Associate Magistrates of CA Ramón Cruz, Japar Dimaampao, Jhosep López, Eduardo Peralta Jr. and María Filomena Singh.
Rosario graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law in 1983 and passed the bar exam the following year.
Rosario worked as a legal officer in the National Investigations Office (NBI) and as a senior corporate attorney in the Metropolitan Aqueduct and Sewerage System.
He was Deputy Chief District Attorney for the City of Quezon City for three years, beginning in 1994.
In 1997, Rosario was appointed Presiding Judge of Section 19 of the Metropolitan Court of First Instance of Manila and, later, Presiding Judge of Section 66 of the Court of First Instance of the Najati Region.
In 2005, then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo appointed Rosario to the appeals court as associate magistrate.
Born on October 15, 1958, Rosario will serve as a magistrate until 2028, when he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70 years.
Rosario is the fourth of the 13 children of the lawyer Eduardo Rosario and Anita de Rivera Rosario.
Two of his brothers are the Manila Bulletin reporter Benjamín Rosario and the editor of the newspaper Eduardo Rosario.
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