Leonardo A Quisumbing was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
11 Facts About Leonardo Quisumbing
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Leonardo Quisumbing was appointed by President Fidel Ramos in 1998 and retired as the most senior Associate Justice of the Court on his 70th birthday in 2009.
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Leonardo Quisumbing was a prominent campus figure as an undergraduate student at the Manuel L Quezon University, where he edited The Quezonian.
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Leonardo Quisumbing placed 12th in the bar examinations in the same year and he pursued his post-graduate studies at Cornell Law School, obtaining a Master of Laws degree.
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Leonardo Quisumbing was a member of the National Debating Team to Australia that won the Wilmot Cup.
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Leonardo Quisumbing was a delegate to the 11th International Student Conference in 1965 at Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Leonardo Quisumbing became a technical assistant to Executive Secretary Rafael Salas in 1965, and then became an assistant state counsel at the Department of Justice from 1966 to 1968.
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Leonardo Quisumbing became the officer-in-charge of the Office of the Executive Secretary in September 1995, before being appointed as Secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment from 1996 to January 1998.
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Leonardo Quisumbing served briefly as dean at Northwestern University in Laoag City.
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Leonardo Quisumbing had special training in Management of Public Agencies at the Cornell University Graduate School, in Research at Georgetown University Communications at the Michigan State University, and in Public Sector Negotiations at Harvard University.
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Leonardo Quisumbing was married to Dr Purificacion Valera Leonardo Quisumbing, who died in December 2011, the former chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights.