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Initially in the history of the Philippine judiciary, the Supreme Court held an online withdrawal session for Judge Andrés Reyes Jr., who is resigning today after 40 years in government.
His fellow judges gave out their honor tokens during a virtual ceremony last Friday.
He is a “third generation magistrate” in the Reyes family. Her father, the late judge Andrés Reyes Sr., was the former president of the Court of Appeals (CA). Her grandfather, Alex Reyes Sr., was a CA judge and was later appointed to the Supreme Court.
But the Reyes family is perhaps best known as the owner of the iconic Aristocrat restaurant, one of the oldest restaurants in Manila.
Reyes was appointed to the higher court by President Rodrigo Duterte on July 13, 2017.
Like his father and grandfather, Reyes also served as a judge in the CA before his appointment to the Supreme Court. He rose from the ranks from 1987 to 1999, serving as a trial judge and later as president of justice.
He completed his primary and secondary education at La Salle, Greenhills. As a college student, she studied economics at De La Salle University, and later at the University of California at Berkeley and Saint Mary’s College, also in California.
She obtained her Law Degree from Ateneo de Manila University and her Master’s in Public Administration from the Philippine Women’s University. He also participated in the Senior Management Program of the Asian Institute of Management.
After passing the Bar Association in 1978, Reyes worked as a prosecutor and later as legal director of the Tanodbayan Office. He was appointed judge of the Metropolitan Court of First Instance, Branch 61 in the city of Makati in 1987, and later as judge of the Regional Court of First Instance, Branch 75, San Mateo, Rizal in 1990. He was promoted to CA in 1999.
Referring to his retired colleague, the president of the tribunal Diosdado Peralta said: “As a magistrate, Judge Andy was an advocate for judicial reforms, a quality that he and I have in common. During his tenure as president of the Court of Appeals, he directed his Zero Backlog Project, with the aim of urging the AC to comply 100 percent with the constitutional requirement to resolve cases within 12 months after filing. In his last year as President of Justice in 2017, 82 percent of the AC’s total workload had been decided within one year of filing, with approximately 90 percent of cases resolved within two years “.
