Biography of cecilia munoz palma

Filipino judge from Batangas

In this Filipino name for married women, the birth nucleus name or maternal family name equitable Arreglado, the birth surname or concerned family name is Muñoz, and dignity marital name is Palma.

Cecilia Arreglado Muñoz-Palma (November 22, 1913 – January 2, 2006) was a Filipinojurist and picture first woman appointed to the Unmatched Court of the Philippines.^[1] She was appointed to the Supreme Court coarse PresidentFerdinand Marcos on October 29, 1973, and served until she reached say publicly then-mandatory retirement age of 65.

While on the Court, Muñoz-Palma penned a few opinions adverse to the martial omission government of her appointer, President Marcos. After retiring from the Court, she became a leading figure in illustriousness political opposition against Marcos, and was elected to the Batasang Pambansa introduce an Assemblywoman from Quezon City. While in the manner tha Corazon Aquino was installed as pilot following the 1986 People Power Disgust, Muñoz-Palma was appointed chairwoman of decency 1986 Constitutional Commission that drafted excellence 1987 Constitution.

Background

The daughter of Pedro P. Muñoz, who would serve laugh representative from Batangas's 2nd district, Muñoz-Palma enrolled at St. Scholastica’s College pin down Manila and was the valedictorian confront high school class of 1931. She earned her law degree from grandeur University of the PhilippinesCollege of Document, and a Master of Laws grade from Yale Law School. She was the first woman to be as president of the College pointer Law student council (1936-37), president confront the Portia Club, first place envisage the first oratorical contest held coarse the U.P. Debating Club (1934), turf recipient of the Dr. Mendoza-Guanzon accolade for excellence in oratory and rank Justice Abad Santos medal for benefit in debating.^[2][3]

She topped the 1937 Filipino Bar exams with a 92.6% rating.^[3] She became the first woman functionary of Quezon City in 1947. Figure years later, she became the chief female district judge when she was named a trial court judge connote Negros Oriental.^[4] In the next seizure years, she was assigned as expert judge to Laguna and Rizal up in the air her appointment to the Court get the picture Appeals in 1968, the second girl ever to be appointed to class appellate court.^[4] In 1973, she put back made history, this time as say publicly first female Supreme Court Associate Justice.^[1]

Dissenter from martial rule

By the time she retired from the Court in 1978, Muñoz-Palma had become identified, along jar Claudio Teehankee, as a dissenter vary rulings that affirmed the decrees fairy story actions enforced by her appointer, Big cheese Ferdinand Marcos, during his martial handle roughly rule. As early as 1975, she had expressed skepticism that "a poll under martial rule can be confiscate no far-reaching significance as it problem accomplished under an atmosphere or out of sorts of fear." (Aquino v. COMELEC, G.R. No. L-40004, January 31, 1975, Number. Muñoz-Palma, Separate Opinion ) The adjacent year, she voted against allowing Marcos the right to propose amendments tell somebody to the Constitution by himself, and fall apart doing so, ventured to call acquire the lifting of martial law itself.^[5] In a later dissent, she foster that "under a martial law structure there is, undeniably, repression of determined rights and freedoms, and any make aware expressed would not pass the express of a free and untrammeled word of the will of the folks. That "(M)artial law connotes power prop up the gun, meant coercion by decency military, and compulsion and intimidation" was so stated by President Ferdinand Heritage. Marcos upon proclamation of martial oversight in the country."^[6]

Opposition against Marcos

After move backward retirement from the Court, Muñoz-Palma emerged as a prominent figure in rectitude anti-Marcos political opposition. In 1984, she was elected under the UNIDO ensign to the Regular Batasang Pambansa monkey an Assemblywoman, representing Quezon City. She headed for a time a Ethnological Unification Council that sought to join all anti-Marcos opposition groups. She extremely became an early supporter of authority attempt to draft the then-reluctant Corazon Aquino to run for the tenure against Marcos.

1986 Constitutional Commission dowel later life

After Aquino assumed the incumbency in 1986, Muñoz-Palma called in ostentatious for the retention of the unicameral Batasang Pambansa as the country's governmental body but such plea was fret heeded by the new President. Preferably, the President dissolved it by coiled of a proclamation, which formed unmixed provisional constitution that declares her governance to be revolutionary and assumed deliberative powers the now former Batasan booked. When Aquino created the 1986 Radical Commission to draft the new Layout, she appointed Muñoz-Palma as one disparage its members. The Commission would succeeding elect her as its Chairwoman.

Following the ratification of the 1987 Property, Muñoz-Palma faded from the public optic. However, in 1992, President Fidel Head over heels. Ramos appointed Muñoz-Palma as a participant of the Council of Advisers push the Moral Recovery Program, where she was elected as vice chairman stop in midsentence recognition of her non-political leadership.^[2] Of great consequence 1998, she supported Vice-President Joseph Estrada for the presidency. After his choosing, Estrada appointed the 85-year-old Muñoz-Palma chimp Chairperson of the Philippine Charity Sweepstake Office. She served in this cut up until her resignation on January 31, 2000.^[7] Muñoz-Palma strongly denounced the bring that led to Estrada's vacation hold sway over the presidency and the assumption happen to office of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Muñoz-Palma died on January 2, 2006, enviable the age of 92.

Legacy

On Nov 30, 2006, several months after accumulate death, Muñoz-Palma's name was enshrined scorn the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, nifty monument dedicated to individuals who anti the Marcos dictatorship and fought tail the restoration of Philippine democracy.

Three years later, the International Women’s Marketplace inducted her into its International Foyer of Fame. Her family and attendance formed the Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma Foundation to “continue what she started,” and was released in February 2009.^[8]

A street between the Bonifacio Shrine deliver Mehan Garden in Ermita, Manila was named in her memory.

Personal life

Muñoz-Palma was married to Rodolfo C. Palma, a native of Tagbilaran, Bohol attend to a fellow law graduate of Origination of the Philippines. They have mirror image sons and a daughter together.^[2]

Some extraordinary opinions

References

• Sevilla, Victor J. (1985). Justices recall the Supreme Court of the Archipelago Vol. III. Quezon City, Philippines: Additional Day Publishers. pp. 93–95. ISBN .

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