Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera
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Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera was a Filipino lawyer who served as an Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court from 1979 to 1992. She was the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court, filling
Justice Ameurfina M. Herrera
Cecilia Muñoz-Palma
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Cecilia Arreglado Muñoz-Palma was a Filipino jurist and the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Ferdinand Marcos on Octob
Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera
…1992. She was the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of the first female Supreme Court Justice, Cecilia Muñoz-Palma. Born in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija to Jose P. and Carmen (née Aguinaldo) Melencio, Herrera was a granddaughter of Emilio Aguinaldo, the first President…
Muñoz-Palma in 1986
Muñoz-Palma as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on a 2009 stamp of the Philippines
Detail of the Wall of Remembrance at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, showing names from the 2006 batch of Bantayog Honorees, including that of Cecilia Muñoz-Palma.