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Shepracticed law for 10 years before joining the Judiciary in October 2002 as the Presiding Judge of Branch 31 of the Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC) of Quezon City. She was appointed Executive Judge of the MeTC-Quezon City thereafter and served for two terms in that capacity. Simultaneously, Justice Singh was selected and sat as the Representative of all First Level Courts in the country on the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA). She served in the PHILJA BOT until her promotion to the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City as Presiding Judge of Branch 85 in June 2007. Justice Singh was bestowed the Don Antonio Madrigal Award as Most Outstanding First Level Court Judge of 2007 by the Society for Judicial Excellence of the Supreme Court.

On March 14, 2014, Justice Singh was appointed as an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals. Prior to her appointment lo the High Court, she was the Senior Member of the Court of Appeal Second Division.

She also served on several committees of the Supreme Court and is the Chairperson of the Civil Law Department of the PHILJA, as well as its Sub-Committee for Curriculum Review. She is likewise a member of the Faculty of Law of the Ateneo de Manila University and of the University of the Philippines College of Law.

Justice Carandang graduated valedictorian of both her elementary and high school classes. She is an alumna of the University of the Philippines where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts major in Political Science degree in 1971 and Bachelor of Laws degree in 1975, graduating cum laude and class salutatorian. She placed ninth in the 1975 Bar Examinations with an average of 84.95 percent.

In December 1993, she was appointed Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 12. In March 2003, she was promoted to the Court of Appeals where she became Chairperson of its Third Division and Rules Committee. Justice Carandang also taught law at the Philippine Christian University and the Manuel L. Quezon University School of Law.

Justice Del Castillo obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1976 from the Ateneo De Manila University School of Law. His career in the judiciary began with his appointment as Municipal Trial Court Judge in 1989, promotion to Regional Trial Court Judge in 1992, Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals in 2001, and finally, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

In 2005, he was conferred the Justice George A. Malcolm Award by the Rotary Club of Manila as best performing CA Justice. In 2006, he was recognized by the Presiding Justice of the CA for his outstanding performance in achieving zero backlog status in case disposal. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the CA Journal from 2006 up to his appointment to the Supreme Court. He taught Practice Court I and II at the Ateneo School of Law and lectured in Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) Seminars.

On November 6, 2020, Justice Del Castillo was appointed by the Supreme Court En Banc as the Vice-Chancellor of the Philippine Judicial Academy, the educational arm of the Supreme Court that instills upon court personnel, lawyers, judges, and justices ethical integrity and legal expertise.

Dean Candelaria was actively involved in some celebrated test case litigation before the Supreme Court notably the Asia-Pacific Conference on East Timor, Davide Impeachment, IPRA and the GRP-MILF MOA-AD.He was also engaged as Peace Panel Member in the past peace negotiations with the CPP/NPA/NDF and MILF under the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process.

During her incumbency as Judge in Baguio City, she was designated as Assisting Judge in the Family Court of Mandaluyong City. She also served as Acting Presiding Judge of RTC, Branch 5 (Family Court) and Branch 21 (Tax Court) in Manila City as well as in the RTC of Makati City, Branch 149 (Commercial Court).

After her retirement from the bench, she served for two years as Chief of Office of the Philippine Mediation Center. She is now a Professorial Lecturer 1 of the Philippine Judicial Academy teaching topics related to Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms particularly Court-Annexed Mediation and Judicial Dispute Resolution.

Justice Bruselas is a senior member of the Court of Appeals. He is the chairman of the Computerization Committee that oversees the automation program of the Court and is a member of the Internal Rules Committee.

Justice Bruselas hails from Tabaco, Albay, the seventh of eight children of a dentist farmer and a school teacher. He is married to Marie Angela P.M. Bruselas with whom he has three children. He obtained his economics and law degrees from the University of the Philippines.

He served with distinction for eight years as a trial prosecutor and another eight years of exemplary service as a regional trial court judge of Quezon City. He was a special commercial court judge, professorial lecturer, and the executive vice president of the Philippine Judges Association when he was appointed to the Court of Appeals.

Justice Bruselas worked in the private sector as a management trainee in bonds and insurance, a financial analyst in corporate planning, financial controls, and audits while studying law in the evening. He also worked as a special/technical assistant in the local governance of Metropolitan Manila, serving concurrently at one time as acting district manager.

He started private law practice upon admission into the Bar and was commissioned into the Armed Forces of the Philippines pursuant to a scholarship contract. He saw active duty as a regular officer in the Judge Advocate General Service (AFP-JAGS) with various postings until his transfer to the civil prosecution service.

While a trial court judge, he taught at UP Law School and did occasional public lectures. He served as a member of the technical working group of the judiciary's Action Program for Judicial Reform. He has represented the country in several international conferences during his stint as a trial judge and public prosecutor.

He completed a training course jointly conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (192nd Session) and the University of Virginia (1998); and the Officers Senior Executive Course (1994) conducted by the Philippine Public Safety College.

Mr. de Lemos has been with the law enforcement for more than half of his mature life and saw for himself the attendant risks of the profession. He has become a serious student of the use and abuse of deadly force by enforcement officers.

In October 2009, he directed and supervised the enforcement operation against the notorious Alvin Flores Armed Robbery Group in Campostela, Cebu. Four members of the Gang, including Alvin Flores perished in the operation. Alvin Flores Robbery Group was responsible for the Glorietta Rolex heist in Makati, among other violent crimes.

She has been a consistent scholar and honor student and graduated Magna Cum laude in 1988 at Silliman University with the Degree of Bachelor of Arts major in Political Science. She pursued legal studies and was conferred the Degree of Bachelor of Laws by San Beda College in 1992. She took and passed the bar examinations conducted that year and became a member of the Philippine Bar in 1993.

She hails from Dipolog City. She is the eldest of the four (4) children of Guado Cabanlit and Marina Plogimon Edrial. She is married to Dominic A. Fargas with whom she has two (2) children, Victoria and Dominic Jr.

He received several recognitions as a police officer including Senior Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year of the WPD, one of the Ten Outstanding Policemen of the Philippines (TOPP) by the Jaycees, and an Act of Heroism Award bestowed by the NCRPO, among others.

In 2005, he was appointed the Presiding Judge of Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC) Branch 12, Manila. As such, he was adjudged as one of the Outstanding Judges of the City of Manila during the 436th Founding Anniversary of the City of Manila in June 2009. In the succeeding years, he was appointed Acting Presiding Judge of MeTC Manila Branches 11, 21 and 22.

In 2011, he was promoted as the Presiding Judge of Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 3, Manila and was assigned additional courts as Acting Presiding Judge of RTC Branch 18, Tagaytay City and RTC Branch 271, Taguig City, successively.

She obtained her Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Santo Tomas, Faculty of Civil Law in 1989 and passed the Bar Examinations given in the same year, making her a lawyer at the age of 25. After passing the bar examinations, she immediately joined the Judiciary as Branch Clerk of Court until her appointment as Clerk of Court of the Regional Trial Court of Agoo, La Union.

She was appointed as Assistant Provincial Prosecutor for the Province of La Union in 1997, making her the youngest Prosecutor in the Province. In 2005, she was appointed as Presiding Judge of RTC Branch 68 and Executive Judge of the Regional Trial Court of Lingayen, Pangasinan, making her the youngest RTC Judge for the whole Region I. In 2011, she transferred to the National Capital Region as the Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court Branch 122, Caloocan City and concurrently, Acting Presiding Judge of RTC 144, Makati City.

Justice Hidalgo is a Law Professor and a Bar Reviewer at the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Civil Law, Powerhouse Review Center and Villasis Review Center respectively. She is also a member of the Corps of Professors of the Philippine Judicial Academy and the Vice Chairperson of its Criminal Law Department. She is a lecturer/resource speaker for various law subjects both here and abroad. She too is an alumna of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Bangkok, Thailand and a member of the Study Team sent by the Philippine Supreme Court and the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the US Embassy which toured the US Rocket Docket Courts in Washington DC, USA to observe the implementation of speedy and continuous trial techniques.

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