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PGMA appoints Brion to the Supreme Court
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President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has appointed Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Arturo Brion as associate justice of the Supreme Court (SC).
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita made the announcement today during a break in the Lenten recollection he, together with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and several Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress and government employees, were attending at the San Miguel Pro-Cathedral, a stone’s throw away from Malacañang Palace.
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Secretary Brion has been named as the new associate justice of Supreme Court. We already sent his (appointment) papers to Chief Justice Reynato Puno an hour ago,” Ermita said.
He said the appointment of Brion to the High Court was “long overdue.”
Brion is a lawyer by training and experience, with years of hands on exposure in labor relations and, in his later years in the Department of Labor and Employment.
Brion came to the Department academically prepared. He topped the Bar examinations of 1974 with a grade of 91.65 percent after finishing his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) at the Ateneo University as cum laude, class valedictorian, and recipient of the Ateneo’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence.
He was born in Manila on Dec. 29, 1946 to Edon B. Brion (a retired trial court judge) and Laura S. Dizon. He grew up and undertook his primary, secondary and part of his tertiary studies in San Pablo City, formerly a mainly agricultural community 87 kilometers southwest of Manila. Life for him in San Pablo was uncomplicated and serene, and he carries his simple provincial ways even to this day.
Brion will fill the vacancy created by the retirement last month of Justice Angelina Sandoval-Gutierrez. He was a justice in the Court of Appeals before he accepted the labor portfolio.
He also worked at the Department of Foreign Affairs under his mentor, the late Secretary Blas F. Ople.
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