MALACAÑANG has announced the appointment of acting Court of Appeals (CA) Presiding Justice Remedios Salazar-Fernando as the head of the appellate court in full capacity.
In a statement, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said that Malacañang is “confident” that Fernando “would serve the CA with the same judicial excellence, dedication and integrity she demonstrated in her years of service at the CA.”
Fernando took her oath as the new CA Presiding Justice before Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta at the En Banc Session Hall.
Salazar-Fernando has been the CA Presiding Justice for a year. Justice Salazar-Fernando has a psychology degree from the College of the Holy Spirit and finished fifth in her law class at the Ateneo de Manila University. She passed the 1977 Bar Exams with a grade of 84.3250.
Fernando worked as a law clerk at the Supreme Court in 1978 before working at the Presidential Management Staff. She was appointed Municipal Trial Court judge in Sta. Rita, Pampanga in 1983 and Acting MTC Judge of Lubao in 1984.
She left the judiciary in 1987 to serve as Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board chairman and assistant secretary of the Land Transportation Office.
The new CA Presiding Justice also served as Comelec commissioner from 1992 until 1998. She returned to the Judiciary as a Court of Appeals justice in May 1999.
She served as bar examiner in the 2005 and 2010 Bar Exams and is a professional lecturer for the Philippine Judicial Academy.