Cabotaje-Tang is the latest graft buster at Sandiganbayan 

Former Assistant Solicitor-General Amparo Cabotaje-Tang on Wednesday took her oath of office as the newest associate justice of the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan.

 

Cabotaje-Tang's oath-taking was administered by Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio at the Dignitaries Lounge of the Supreme Court along Padre Faura Street in Manila.

 

Cabotaje-Tang, 57, whose appointment Malacañang announced last week fills up the post vacated by Francisco Villaruz Jr., who was appointed as presiding justice of the Sandiganbayan last October.

 

Prior to her appointment to the Sanidganbayan, Cabotaje-Tang served as trial attorney and solicitor in 1982 then as assistant solicitor-general from 1994 onwards.

 

She also worked as a legal assistant at the Supreme Court from 1980 to 1982.

 

She obtained a political science degree from the Manuel L. Quezon University in 1975, and a law degree from the San Beda College of Law.

 

The new Sandiganbayan associate justice was admitted into the Philippine Bar in 1980. — Mark Merueñas/VS, GMA News