Corona was appointed associate justice by Arroyo on April 9, 2002. He graduated law from the Ateneo Law School in 1974. While studying, he also worked full time in the Office of the Executive Secretary. He ranked 25th in the 1974 Bar examination out of 1,965 candidates.
After law school, he studied Master of Business Administration at the Ateneo Professional Schools and in 1981, he was accepted to the Master of Laws program in Harvard Law School, where he focused on foreign investment policies and the regulation of corporate and financial institutions.
In 1992, he joined President Fidel Ramos as Assistant Executive Secretary for legal affairs. Two years later, he was promoted Deputy Executive Secretary and eventually became the Presidential Legal Counsel.
After Ramos, he was invited by then Vice President Arroyo to become her chief of staff and spokesman. When she assumed the presidency in 2001, he became the Presidential Chief of Staff, spokesman, and later as acting Executive Secretary.
He became a faculty of Ateneo Law school, teaching Commercial law, Taxation and Corporation law.
He was born on October 15, 1948 in Tanauan City, Batangas. He is married to former Cristina Roco and they have three children.
This is the first time that there is a “chief justice in waiting.” Before, presidents announce their choices for the chief justice post upon the retirement of the sitting chief justice.
The appointment of Puno’s replacement has been the most contested, with some saying that President Arroyo can no longer make the appointment due to the ban under Section 15 Article 7 of the 1987 Constitution which provides that only temporary appointments can be made within two months before the national elections.
But the Supreme Court in its March 17 ruling said that positions in the Supreme Court are exempted from the appointment ban.
Constitution expert Joaquin Bernas also said that there can be no appointment without a vacancy.
Posted 10:34:00 05/12/2010
By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
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