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Antonio Carpio
Antonio Tirol Carpio (Tagalog pronunciation: [anˈtɔnjo ˈkaɾpjo]; born October 26, 1949) is a former associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was sworn in as a member of the Supreme Court by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on October 26, 2001, and served until his retirement on October 26, 2019. He served as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines for a period of eighteen years. He also served as chief justice in an acting capacity several times during his tenure as Senior Associate Justice.
Born in Davao City to Bernardo Dumlao Carpio and Sol Gonzales Tirol, Carpio finished his elementary and secondary education at the Ateneo de Davao University. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1970 and his law degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law at UP Diliman where he graduated valedictorian and cum laude in 1975. He is married to Vietnamese Bach Yen "Ruth" Nguyen Carpio.
At U.P., Carpio was the Philippine Law Journal's Chairman of the editorial board, The Guidon's editor-in-chief and Managing Editor of the Philippine Collegian.[1] He ranked sixth with a rating of 85.70% in the 1975 Philippine Bar Examination.
After law school, Carpio went into private practice. In 1980, with a borrowed capital of just P100,000 he co-founded the Carpio Villaraza Cruz law offices, known in local legal circles in the Philippines as 'The Firm', in reference to John Grisham's 'The Firm'. Carpio also taught tax law, corporate law, and negotiable instruments law at the University of the Philippines College of Law from 1983 to 1992. He became a member of the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines from 1993 to 1998.
In 1992, he joined the administration of President Fidel Ramos as chief presidential legal counsel of the Office of the President. As such, he worked for major reforms in telecommunications, shipping, civil aviation, and insurance industries. During the presidency of Joseph Estrada, Carpio returned to private practice and penned a regular opinion column published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Carpio was the first appointee of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to the Supreme Court of the Philippines after her assumption into office in January 2001. At the age of 52, he was one of the youngest appointees to the Supreme Court.
Carpio received the Presidential Medal of Merit from President Fidel Ramos in 1998 for his "distinguished and exemplary service" to the country, the Outstanding Achievement in Law Award from the Ateneo de Manila Alumni Association, and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the Ateneo de Davao University. The University of the Philippines Alumni Association named him Outstanding U.P. Alumni in Public International Law in 2015 and the Most Distinguished Alumni in 2017.
Being the senior associate justice, he assumed the post of acting chief justice on May 29, 2012 until the president appointed a new chief justice. He was the expected appointee as Inquirer op-ed writer Margaux Salcedo pointed out: "Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio is necessarily in the lead, as he is the most senior of all the sitting justices. Tradition dictates that he must be the automatic successor to the throne." However, President Benigno Aquino III appointed then-Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.
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Antonio Carpio
Antonio Tirol Carpio (Tagalog pronunciation: [anˈtɔnjo ˈkaɾpjo]; born October 26, 1949) is a former associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was sworn in as a member of the Supreme Court by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on October 26, 2001, and served until his retirement on October 26, 2019. He served as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines for a period of eighteen years. He also served as chief justice in an acting capacity several times during his tenure as Senior Associate Justice.
Born in Davao City to Bernardo Dumlao Carpio and Sol Gonzales Tirol, Carpio finished his elementary and secondary education at the Ateneo de Davao University. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1970 and his law degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law at UP Diliman where he graduated valedictorian and cum laude in 1975. He is married to Vietnamese Bach Yen "Ruth" Nguyen Carpio.
At U.P., Carpio was the Philippine Law Journal's Chairman of the editorial board, The Guidon's editor-in-chief and Managing Editor of the Philippine Collegian.[1] He ranked sixth with a rating of 85.70% in the 1975 Philippine Bar Examination.
After law school, Carpio went into private practice. In 1980, with a borrowed capital of just P100,000 he co-founded the Carpio Villaraza Cruz law offices, known in local legal circles in the Philippines as 'The Firm', in reference to John Grisham's 'The Firm'. Carpio also taught tax law, corporate law, and negotiable instruments law at the University of the Philippines College of Law from 1983 to 1992. He became a member of the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines from 1993 to 1998.
In 1992, he joined the administration of President Fidel Ramos as chief presidential legal counsel of the Office of the President. As such, he worked for major reforms in telecommunications, shipping, civil aviation, and insurance industries. During the presidency of Joseph Estrada, Carpio returned to private practice and penned a regular opinion column published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Carpio was the first appointee of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to the Supreme Court of the Philippines after her assumption into office in January 2001. At the age of 52, he was one of the youngest appointees to the Supreme Court.
Carpio received the Presidential Medal of Merit from President Fidel Ramos in 1998 for his "distinguished and exemplary service" to the country, the Outstanding Achievement in Law Award from the Ateneo de Manila Alumni Association, and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the Ateneo de Davao University. The University of the Philippines Alumni Association named him Outstanding U.P. Alumni in Public International Law in 2015 and the Most Distinguished Alumni in 2017.
Being the senior associate justice, he assumed the post of acting chief justice on May 29, 2012 until the president appointed a new chief justice. He was the expected appointee as Inquirer op-ed writer Margaux Salcedo pointed out: "Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio is necessarily in the lead, as he is the most senior of all the sitting justices. Tradition dictates that he must be the automatic successor to the throne." However, President Benigno Aquino III appointed then-Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.
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