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(Supreme Court Justice Ricardo de Rivera Rosario)
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Justice Ricardo Rosario who, from humble beginnings, reached the pinnacle of his legal career after he was named by President Rodrigo Duterte as the 189th associate justice of the Supreme Court.
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Rosario formally assumed office on October 8, 2020, after being sworn in by Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta at the en banc Session Hall.
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Rosario's success story started 43 years ago when he first worked as a messenger for the Employees' Compensation Commission and as a security guard for the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel in 1977  until his promotion to a clerk position.
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Inspired by his lawyer-father Eduardo Rosario, he then took up law at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law from 1979-1983.
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Prior to taking up law, Rosario holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the Far Eastern University.
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His entire professional career has been with government service. He secured his first job as a lawyer in the Legal Department of the National Bureau of Investigation, and then at the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System as senior corporate lawyer from 1986 to 1994.
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His entry in the judiciary came when he was appointed in March 1994 as presiding judge of the Metropolitan Trial Court (MTC) of Manila Branch 19 during the administration of Fidel Ramos.
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Today in Phillippine history, October 15, 1958, Ricardo Rosario was born in Quezon City