Leonardo Quisumbing

Leonardo A. Quisumbing (born November 6, 1939) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was appointed by President Fidel Ramos in 1998 and retired as the most senior Associate Justice of the Court on his 70th birthday in 2009. Hailing from Masbate, Masbate, Quisumbing graduated Valedictorian of the Masbate High School in 1959. He was a prominent campus figure as an undergraduate student at the Manuel L. Quezon University, where he edited The Quezonian, graduated magna cum laude, A.B. Journalism, and as a law student at the University of the Philippines. While at U.P., he was the President of the University Student Council, the President of the Student Councils Association of the Philippines, and an editor of...