THE SUPREME Court (SC) on Tuesday confirmed the early retirement of one of its magistrates.
"The Court approved the application for disability retirement of Justice Priscilla Baltazar-Padilla effective today, 3 November,” the SC Public Information Office said in a press statement.
No other details were provided by the court.
Baltazar-Padilla was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte to the High Court last July, replacing Associate Justice Andres Reyes Jr., who retired in May.
Padilla joined the judiciary in 1996 as Presiding Judge of Branch 29 of the Metropolitan Trial Court of Manila.
She was promoted to Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court of Manila Branch 38 in 2000. In 2006, she was appointed Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals and held the position for 14 years until her appointment to the Supreme Court.
She graduated from the Lyceum of the Philippines in Intramuros, Manila, and placed 5th in the 1984 bar examinations.
She is Duterte's 14th appointee to the High Court and would have reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 in 2028. (By Benjamin Pulta)
