President
Aquino has appointed 11 new judges for Mountain Province, Masbate and for the
provinces in the Bicol region.
The judges’
appointment papers, dated Nov. 27 and signed by Executive Secretary Paquito
Ochoa Jr., were submitted to the office of Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria
Lourdes Sereno early last week.
Judges
Jocelyn Pespes-Humiwat was appointed to the second municipal circuit trial
court in Buko-Sabangan, Mountain Province; Jezebel Almodal-Espinosa to the
third MCTC in San Fernando-Batuan, Masbate, and Joyce GaballoLlacer to the
eighth MCTC in San Jacinto-Monreal, also in Masbate.
For the
Bicol region, Annielyn Medes-Cabelis was appointed new judge of the Albay
Regional Trial Court Branch 12 in Ligao City.
For the
region’s first level court, appointed were Joseph Raymond Borja in Legaspi
City, Alfredo Arneil Ramos in Pio Duran, and Cesar Malazarte in RapuRapu, all
in Albay; Marlon Bacuno in Camarines Norte; Ammelina Bernadette Corazon
Palma-Crescini and Rebecca Obsequio Bagasala in Camarines Sur, and Carlo
Martin Adille in Catanduanes.
The
appointees were screened by the Judicial and Bar Council prior to
their appointments.
The
seven-man council, which is mandated to screen nominees for vacant posts in the
judiciary and the Office of the Ombudsman, is chaired by Sereno with Sen.
Aquilino Pimentel III and Justice Secretary Leila de Lima as ex-officio
members.
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