Abdulwahid Bidin

Abdulwahid A. Bidin (April 7, 1925 — February 2, 1999) — was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Appointed by President Corazon Aquino in 1987, he was the first Muslim named to the Philippine High Bench. Born in Tawi-Tawi, Bidin finished his high school education in Sulu. He fought with the resistance movement against the Japanese occupation during World War II. After the war, he pursued his college studies at the University of the Philippines as a government scholar, and eventually earned his law degree from the university's College of Law. Bidin returned to Sulu and spent the next few years in private practice. From 1956 to 1959, he was an elected member of the Provincial Board of Sulu. Bidin first entered...