Santiago: ‘Lover of the law’

HER resume is as kilometric as her legal ruminations

Born on June 15, 1945 in Iloilo City to a Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge and college dean, and the eldest of seven children, Miriam Defensor-Santiago showed her intellect at a young age, graduating vale earned the degrees Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude; and Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines, where she became editor in chief of the Philippine Collegian. She went abroad and earned the graduate degrees Master of Laws and Doctor of

“As a lover of Law, she was one of a kind, the likes of whom would vale of tears,” said former senate president Aquilino Pimentel Jr.

Theologian, RTC judge

- - gree Master of Arts in Religious of Theology.

She also went to other univer Cambridge, Harvard, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford, and at The Hague, Netherlands.

- judge of the Quezon City RTC, 50 UP and Ateneo de Manila stu

They were held for holding a rowdy street demonstration against Martial Law in Quezon City but -

by the Supreme Court, and she

Law from U.P.

Executive branch

Santiago started working in the President Corazon Aquino ap - portation. She was later promoted to the Aquino Cabinet, heading the Department of Agrarian Re

she ordered the redistribution - dent’s family. Shortly thereafter, - tiago’s resignation.

Ramos during the 1992 presidential

Santiago, who ran under her

1995 and during her three terms in the Senate, she was able to -

- -

supposed to serve a nine- year

the post in 2014.

Bar hurdle

- in one of her interviews that she -

was in love when she took the test.

Also, she was protesting against her father for not allowing her to

- an interview.

Incorruptible

that the Senate President had used Senate funds to give away P2 million as a Christmas gift, for Santiago and two others.

The revelation led to the Prior members of Congress and other known as pork barrel funds.

was among those whose pork barrel funds were never marred

Santiago has earned several Platinum Lady, Tiger Lady, Dragon Popularity Polls, and the Undisputed Campus Hero.