Aquino appoints new judges to lower courts

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III appointed new judges to the lower courts, said deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte at a press briefing in Malacañang Tuesday.

Aquino signed the appointment letters of Judge Corazon Domingo-Rañola as presiding judge of the Malolos, Bulacan Regional Trial Court (RTC) branch 10; Judge Mirasol Ong Dychingco as presiding judge of the Malolos, Bulacan RTC branch 20; and Judge Hermenegildo Dumlao as presiding judge of the Malolos, Bulacan RTC branch 81.

The other presidential appointees are the following:

* Judge Ana Marie Joson Viterbo as presiding judge of the Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, RTC branch 24.

* Judge Mildred Villaroman Hernal as presiding judge of the Gapan City,
Nueva Ecija, RTC branch 35;

* Judge Merideth delos Santos Malig as presiding judge of the Guaga,
Pampanga, RTC branch 51;

* Judge Roline Ginez Jabalde as presiding judge of the Olongapo City,
Zambales, RTC branch 74;

* Judge Marifi Patam Chua as presiding judge of the Iba, Zambales, RTC
branch 70;

* Judge Maximo B. Ancheta Jr. as presiding judge of the Baler, Aurora, RTC branch 66;

* Judge Vincent Filomena B. Rosales as presiding judge of the Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental, RTC branch 23;

* Judge Henry B. Damasing as presiding judge of the Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental, RTC branch 24;

* Judge Carlos L. Espero II as presiding judge of the Davao City, Davao del Sur, RTC branch 9;

* Judge Retrina Espe Fuentes as presiding judge of the Davao City, Davao del Sur, RTC branch 10;

* Judge Reynato B. Gleyo Sr. as presiding judge of the Isulan, Sultan
Kudarat, RTC branch 19;

* Judge Vicente S. Fernandez Jr. as presiding judge of the San Felipe,
Zambales, Municipal Trial Court (MTC);

* Judge Rowena Rama Chavez as presiding judge of the Paombong, Bulacan, MTC;

* Judge Elmer H. Alea as presiding judge of the San Jose, Batangas, MTC;

* Judge Michelle C. Manaig-Calumpong as presiding judge of the San Juan, Batangas, MTC;

* Judge Rosalind R. Jungco-Abrigo as presiding judge of the Olongapo City, Zambales, Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) branch 3;

* Judge Esmeralda Balderas David as presiding judge of the Olongapo City, Zambales, MTCC branch 4;

* Judge Petronila P. Tañas-Arguelles as presiding judge of the Batangas
City, MTCC branch 1;

* Judge Kelly B. Belino as presiding judge of the Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, MTCC branch 1;

* Judge Zamita Tello Mationg as S.S. Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, MTCC;

* Judge Priscilla Unating Acedera as presiding judge of the
Lemery-Agoncillo, Batangas, Municipal Circuit Trial Court (MCTC);

* Judge Ali Joseph Ryan C. Lloren as presiding judge of the Jasaan
–Claveria, Misamis Oriental, MCTC;

* Judge Celenito N. Daing as presiding judge of the Jimenez-Sinacaban,
Misamis Oriental, 4th MCTC;

* Judge Steven Prieto Cercado as presiding judge of the Janiuay- Badiangan, Iloilo, 11th MCTC;

* Judge Minerva Paqueo Pepino as presiding judge of the Carmen-Sto. Tomas, Davao del Norte, 5th MCTC; and

* Judge Dante Corminal as presiding judge of the Tubod-Algeria, Surigao
del Norte, 5th MCTC.

Aquino has also appointed new officials in various national government agencies.

The appointees were Luis Mamitag Jr. as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) replacing Alfredo Tolentino.

Rommel Herrera was appointed as acting director IV of the Department of Finance (DOF), replacing Maria Edita Tan.

Other presidential appointees include Jennifer Remoquillo as Acting Director III of the Department of Agriculture (DA), replacing Dante de Lima; Ella Cecilia Naliponguit as Acting Director III of the Health and
Nutrition Center, Department of Education, replacing Thelma G. Santos; Milagros D. De Guzman as Acting Director III (Deputy Executive Director) of the National Book Development Board, Department of Education, replacing Jeanne L. Sarmiento and Rosario Virginia C. Gaetos as Executive Director of the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions Inc. (CITEM), Department of Trade and Industry.

Also appointed as members of the Board of Directors of the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC), Department of Agriculture were Jovy Bernabe, president and Chief Executive Officer of the PCIC; Alex de Guzman Suarez, representing the farmers' sector from Luzon; Dioscoro A. Granada, representing the farmers' sector from Mindanao and Epifanio A. Maniebo, representing the Private Insurance Industry.

Their term of office will end on June 30, 2013. (Jill Beltran/Sunnex)