Jimeno is UPAA awardee for Public Service

The U.P. Sigma Alpha Sorority Alumnae Association Inc. led by President Remedios C. Cruz, D.B.A. , is proud to announce that Atty . Rita Linda Ventura Jimeno , a member of its Board of Directors has been selected by the University of the Philippines Alumni Association to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award for Public Service . The award will be presented during the U.P. Grand Alumni Homecoming to be held this June 25, 2016 at the Bahay ng Alumni in UP Diliman.

Atty. JIMENO has been selected because of her advocacies for environmental protection , consumer rights, and the amendments in the rules of court which she proposed for speedy court proceeding . She led along with Gina Lopez the fight against mining in Lobo, Batangas which would have damaged the VERDE Island passage irreparably through her newspaper column and the pleadings she filed with the Sangguniang Bayan of Lobo. When she was president of the Philippine Bar Association in 2004 to 2005, she filed complaints with the Ombudsman against mayors of Metro Manila who were not complying with the Comprehensive Ecological Waste Management Law.

Atty. Jimeno is a practicing lawyer and the managing partner of Jimeno, Cope and David Law Offices. She is the Associate Dean of the Centro Escolar School of Law where she also teaches and a Professorial Lecturer of the Philippine Judicial Academy. Her other achievements include her being the first Filipino director of the International Criminal Bar, an association of international lawyers based in The Hague . She is the second lady to head the Philippine Bar Association. She is an arbitrator for the International Chamber of Commerce, International Court of Arbitration and was a member of the Technical Panel for Legal Education of the Commission on Higher Education .

Atty. Jimeno graduated from the U.P. College of Mass Communication with a degree in Bachelor in Mass Communication , major in Broadcasting and minor in Journalism in 1973 and from the U. P. College of Law in 1985 with a degree in Bachelor of Laws. She also took up MBA at De La Salle University while teaching Journalism. She received a Presidential Medal of Merit from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2005 for her work in the Consultative Commission for Constitutional Reforms which recommended the shift of the form of government from the centralized unitary form to the federal-parliamentary system.