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Renato Corona
Renato Tereso Antonio Coronado Corona (October 15, 1948 – April 29, 2016) was a Filipino judge who served as the 23rd Chief Justice of the Philippines from 2010 until his removal from office in 2012.
A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, Corona worked as a law professor and private practitioner before joining the cabinets of Presidents Fidel V. Ramos and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. In 2002, Arroyo appointed him Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He held the position until 2010, when Arroyo named him Chief Justice following the mandatory retirement of Reynato Puno. The appointment, made shortly after the 2010 presidential election, was questioned but was later upheld in De Castro v. JBC.
During his tenure, the Supreme Court issued the landmark ruling in Hacienda Luisita, Inc. v. PARC (2011), which upheld the distribution of land to the hacienda's farm workers under the agrarian reform law and revoked the stock distribution option (SDO) agreement implemented in 1989.
In May 2012, Corona was impeached and convicted for failing to disclose his financial assets as required by the Constitution, making him the first Philippine government official to be removed from office through impeachment.
Renato Tereso Antonio Coronado Corona was born on October 15, 1948, at the Lopez Clinic in Santa Ana, Manila. He was the son of Juan M. Corona, a lawyer from Tanauan, Batangas, and Eugenia Ongcapin Coronado, a summa cum laude accounting graduate of the University of Santo Tomas, from Santa Cruz, Manila. He graduated with gold medal honours from Ateneo de Manila Grade School in 1962 and from Ateneo de Manila High School in 1966.
Corona earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, with honours, from Ateneo de Manila University in 1970, where he also served as editor-in-chief of The Guidon, the university student newspaper. He completed his Bachelor of Laws at Ateneo Law School in 1974, placing 25th out of 1,965 candidates in the bar examination with a rating of 84.6 percent. After his law studies, he obtained a Master of Business Administration degree at the Ateneo Professional Schools.
In 1981, he was admitted to the Master of Laws program at Harvard Law School, where he specialised in foreign investment policies and the regulation of corporate and financial institutions. He earned his LL.M. degree in 1982. He later obtained his Doctor of Civil Law degree from the University of Santo Tomas, graduating summa cum laude and as class valedictorian.
On May 12, 2010, two days after the general election and a month before the end of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's term, Corona was appointed as the 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, succeeding Reynato Puno, who had reached the mandatory retirement age.
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Renato Corona
Renato Tereso Antonio Coronado Corona (October 15, 1948 – April 29, 2016) was a Filipino judge who served as the 23rd Chief Justice of the Philippines from 2010 until his removal from office in 2012.
A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, Corona worked as a law professor and private practitioner before joining the cabinets of Presidents Fidel V. Ramos and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. In 2002, Arroyo appointed him Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He held the position until 2010, when Arroyo named him Chief Justice following the mandatory retirement of Reynato Puno. The appointment, made shortly after the 2010 presidential election, was questioned but was later upheld in De Castro v. JBC.
During his tenure, the Supreme Court issued the landmark ruling in Hacienda Luisita, Inc. v. PARC (2011), which upheld the distribution of land to the hacienda's farm workers under the agrarian reform law and revoked the stock distribution option (SDO) agreement implemented in 1989.
In May 2012, Corona was impeached and convicted for failing to disclose his financial assets as required by the Constitution, making him the first Philippine government official to be removed from office through impeachment.
Renato Tereso Antonio Coronado Corona was born on October 15, 1948, at the Lopez Clinic in Santa Ana, Manila. He was the son of Juan M. Corona, a lawyer from Tanauan, Batangas, and Eugenia Ongcapin Coronado, a summa cum laude accounting graduate of the University of Santo Tomas, from Santa Cruz, Manila. He graduated with gold medal honours from Ateneo de Manila Grade School in 1962 and from Ateneo de Manila High School in 1966.
Corona earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, with honours, from Ateneo de Manila University in 1970, where he also served as editor-in-chief of The Guidon, the university student newspaper. He completed his Bachelor of Laws at Ateneo Law School in 1974, placing 25th out of 1,965 candidates in the bar examination with a rating of 84.6 percent. After his law studies, he obtained a Master of Business Administration degree at the Ateneo Professional Schools.
In 1981, he was admitted to the Master of Laws program at Harvard Law School, where he specialised in foreign investment policies and the regulation of corporate and financial institutions. He earned his LL.M. degree in 1982. He later obtained his Doctor of Civil Law degree from the University of Santo Tomas, graduating summa cum laude and as class valedictorian.
On May 12, 2010, two days after the general election and a month before the end of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's term, Corona was appointed as the 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, succeeding Reynato Puno, who had reached the mandatory retirement age.