Lucas Bersamin

2022 - 9 - 27

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Bersamin takes post as executive secretary (The Manila Times)

(UPDATED) PRESIDENT Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has appointed retired Supreme Court chief justice Lucas Bersamin as his new executive secretary, ...

In 2003, Bersamin was appointed associate justice at the Court of Appeals and was promoted to the Supreme Court in 2009. Bersamin earned his law degree from the University of the East in 1973 and placed ninth in the Bar examinations in the same year. Its staff function pertains to its duties to the President, while its line function pertains to its management of the Office of the President and its attached agencies.

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Image courtesy of "The Manila Times"

Bersamin takes post as executive secretary (The Manila Times)

(UPDATED) PRESIDENT Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has appointed retired Supreme Court chief justice Lucas Bersamin as his new executive secretary, ...

In 2003, Bersamin was appointed associate justice at the Court of Appeals and was promoted to the Supreme Court in 2009. Bersamin earned his law degree from the University of the East in 1973 and placed ninth in the Bar examinations in the same year. Its staff function pertains to its duties to the President, while its line function pertains to its management of the Office of the President and its attached agencies.

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Image courtesy of "The Manila Times"

Bersamin takes post as executive secretary (The Manila Times)

(UPDATED) PRESIDENT Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has appointed retired Supreme Court chief justice Lucas Bersamin as his new executive secretary, ...

In 2003, Bersamin was appointed associate justice at the Court of Appeals and was promoted to the Supreme Court in 2009. Bersamin earned his law degree from the University of the East in 1973 and placed ninth in the Bar examinations in the same year. Its staff function pertains to its duties to the President, while its line function pertains to its management of the Office of the President and its attached agencies.

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Marcos picks ex-CJ Bersamin as new executive secretary (Rappler)

Former chief justice Lucas Bersamin, 72, replaces Victor Rodriguez, the shortest serving executive secretary in recent years.

He earned his law degree from the University of the East and joined the bar after taking the 9th spot in the 1973 Bar Examinations. [Before leaving the SC](https://www.rappler.com/nation/242500-bersamin-bids-goodbye-supreme-court-no-regrets/), Bersamin said he wanted to be remembered as a “healing chief justice,” a reference to the controversial quo warranto case against former chief justice Maria Lourdes Sereno that had rocked the judiciary. [voted to allow a hero’s burial](https://www.rappler.com/nation/149496-supreme-court-decision-bury-marcos-libingan-bayani/) for the late dictator Ferdinand E.

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