Lucas Bersamin

Lucas P. Bersamin (born October 18, 1949) is a Filipino jurist. He was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on April 2, 2009,^[1] and was sworn into office the following day. He was a member of the Court of Appeals at the time of his appointment.

Bersamin earned his undergraduate degree from the University of the Philippines and graduated from the University of the East College of Law in 1973. He was in private practice from 1974 until 1986, when he was appointed a trial court judge in Quezon City by President Corazon Aquino. He was elevated to the Court of Appeals by President Arroyo in 2003.

He is the brother of former congressman Luis P. Bersamin, Jr. of Abra, who was gunned down during a wedding ceremony^[2] and brother of Abra provincial governor Eustaquio Bersamin.^[3]

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