More government appointees named

MANILA -- President Benigno Aquino III has named new appointees to the court, central bank, and to an international body, a Palace official said Wednesday.

Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte, in a press briefing, said that the Chief Executive appointed Maria Belen Ringpis-Liban as Associate Justice of the Court of Tax Appeals replacing Olga Palanca-Enriquez.

The President signed Ringpis-Liban's appointment on May 17.

A graduate of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law, Ringpis-Liban served as regional trial court judge of Malolos and Quezon City. She also became a solicitor at the Office of the Solicitor General from 1988 to 1996.

From 1986 to 1988, she worked as a confidential attorney at the Court of Appeals. Ringpis-Liban was also a legal associate at PNCC and the Puruganan Ongkiko and Chato Law office.

Also on May 17 the President appointed Teresita Hatta as executive director of the Central Bank Board of Liquidators. Hatta replaces Leopoldo Abad Jr.

A graduate of Business Administration at the UP, Hatta worked as assistant governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas's (BSP) Systems and Methods Office in 2001 to 2009.

She also became the BSP's managing director for Accounting and Information Technology and concurrent chief accountant and chief information officer of the BSP from 1997 to 2001.

She also served in the old Central Bank of the Philippines and also worked at the SGV and Co. for six years.

Other presidential appointments include Aurora Javate-de Dios as Philippine Representative to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children.

Javate-de Dios will serve for three years as the country’s representative. (SDR/Sunnex)

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