CHR names new chairperson

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) announced Wednesday the appointment of Leah Tanodra-Armamento as its new chairperson.

Tanodra-Armanento will be succeeding late CHR chair Jose Luis Martin “Chito” Gascon who succumbed to complications caused by COVID-19 last year.

She is not new to the CHR as she was a commissioner under the present and Fifth Commission en banc.

The new CHR chair previously worked for five years with the Office of the Solicitor General as an associate solicitor, where she assisted the solicitors in habeas corpus cases.

She was transferred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and moved her way up from State Prosecutor to Senior State Prosecutor from 1991 to 2003.

In 2003, Tanodra-Armamento was appointed as the DOJ Assistant Chief State Prosecutor, where she chaired the legal panel of the Philippine government (GPH) during the Review of the Final Peace Agreement’s Implementation between GPH and Moro National Liberation Front (MILF). She was also appointed as DOJ Undersecretary.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law. She was also a fellow of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2007.

The CHR said the appointments of the present Commission en banc—namely, commissioners Karen Gomez-Dumpit, Gwendolyn Pimentel-Gana, and Roberto Eugenio Cadiz—will expire on May 5, 2022.—Richa Noriega/AOL, GMA News