1. Jose Armando R Melo was a Filipino lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1992 to 2002.
11 Facts About Jose Melo
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Jose Melo served as Chairman of the Commission on Elections, and was succeeded by election lawyer Sixto Brillantes.
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Jose Melo obtained his Master of Laws at the University of Santo Tomas in 1960 with the highest grade of meritissimus.
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In 1986, Jose Melo was appointed to the Court of Appeals by President Corazon Aquino.
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Jose Melo served for ten years on the High Court, retiring after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 on May 30,2002.
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The body, popularly known as the Jose Melo Commission, rendered a report which concluded that most of the killings were instigated by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, but found no proof linking the murder of activists to a "national policy" as claimed by the left-wing groups.
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Jose Melo introduced reforms for detainee voting and campaign finance reporting.
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Jose Melo resigned from his post in January 2011 cutting short his supposedly seven-year term.
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Jose Melo was married to Norma Cruz, with whom he had three children, Olivia Ann, Jaime Alberto, and Jorge Alfonso.
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Jose Melo died on October 18,2020, and was cremated on October 21.
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Jose Melo was the second ex-COMELEC chief to have died in 2020 after his successor Sixto Brillantes died of COVID-19 last August 11.