Flerida Ruth Pineda-Romero
Filipino judge (1929-2017)
Flérida Ruth Cruz Pineda-Romero (August 1, 1929 – December 8, 2017) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
Early life and education
Pineda-Romero was born in Tondo, Manila, the daughter of Pedro Pineda and Juliana de la Cruz. Her father was a lawyer, and her mother was a suffragist and teacher. Romero received a law degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1952, and an LL.M. from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 1955. Justice Romero was inducted into the Indiana University School of Law's Academy of Alumni Fellows in 1994. She was awarded an honorary LL.D. by Indiana University in 2000.
Legal career
Pineda-Romero was Director and Dean of the University of the Philippines School of Labor and Industrial Relations from 1962 to 1963. She became known as an expert on the Civil Code of the Philippines and was a long-time professor at the UP College of Law. In 1969, she was one of five professional women from Asian countries to speak at the Assembly of Indiana Church Women United. In 1986, she was secretary-general of the Philippine Constitutional Commission which drafted the new constitution of the Philippines.
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