Angelina Sandoval-Gutierrez

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Angelina Sandoval-Gutierrez
Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court
In office December 22, 2000 – February 27, 2008
Appointed by	Joseph Estrada
Preceded by	Fidel Purisima
Succeeded by	Arturo Brion

Born	February 28, 1938 (1938-02-28) (age 70) Alitagtag, Batangas
Spouse	Diego H. Gutierrez (deceased)

Angelina Sandoval-Gutierrez (born February 28, 1938) is a Filipino jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 2000 to 2008. She was the last appointment to the Court made by President Joseph Estrada.

1 Profile
2 Family
3 Some notable opinions
4 External links

[edit] Profile

Sandoval-Gutierrez earned her law degree from the University of Santo Tomas in 1960. After two years working at the National Bureau of Investigation, Sandoval-Gutierrez joined the Department of Justice in 1965. She later worked as an attorney for the Supreme Court.

In 1983, Sandoval-Gutierrez was appointed as a trial court judge in Manila. She was promoted as an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals by President Corazon Aquino in 1991. She served in the appellate court until her appointment to the Supreme Court in 2000.

In pursuit of post-graduate studies attended Harvard Law School Courses in 1989 and 1994, taking up Constitutional Law, Advanced Constitutional Law, Legal Medicine, Family Law and Federal Courts. She also studied, as a fellow, American and International Law at the Academy of the American and International Law, University of Texas in Dallas. She attended the course on trial techniques at the National Judicial College, University of Nevada at Reno and took up management and delinquency control at the University of Southern California Delinquency Control Institute, Los Angeles.

Among many various honors, Sandoval-Gutierrez was the first recipient of the prestigious Cayetano Arellano Award as an Outstanding RTC Judge of the Philippines for 1990. She has also the distinction of being the first winner (First Prize Awardee, 1989) in the judicial essay/best written decision contest among Regional Trial Court women judges sponsored by the Philippine Women Judges Association yearly for having written the best “Proposed Innovations in Judicial Management and Procedure.”

[edit] Family

Sandoval-Gutierrez was married to the late National Bureau of Investigation Assistant Director Diego H. Gutierrez, who died in 2002. They have three children: Aileen is a State Prosecutor in the Department of Justice, whose husband, Robert Victor C. Marcon, is a law practitioner; Francis, an Esquire (attorney-at-law), is a graduate of the American University George Washington College of Law. He works in the Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C.; James, also an Esquire, is a graduate of the Boston University. He is connected with the Stroock and Stroock and Lavan Law Firm in New York City [1]

On May 14, 2000, Sandoval-Gutierrez was bestowed the “Ulirang Ina Award” by the National Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Foundation.

[edit] Some notable opinions

Estrada v. Desierto (2001) - Separate Opinion — on the validity of assumption to the presidency of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Long v. Basa (2001) — on availability of judicial remedies following expulsion of board members in a religious corporation

Prov. of Camarines Sur v. Prov. of Quezon (2001) — on boundary dispute between Camarines Sur and Quezon

Chavez v. Romulo (2004) — on the right to bear arms in the Philippines

Batangas CATV v. Court of Appeals (2004) — on right of municipal governments to regulate cable TV subscription rates

MTRCB v. ABS-CBN (2005) — on whether a public affairs television program may be subjected to prior review by the government television review board