page_title: Antonio Carpio
section_title: Profile
hierarchical_section_title: Antonio Carpio / Profile
caption_attribution_description: English: Office of Antonio T. Carpio, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines[1]
context_page_description: Antonio Tirol Carpio was an Associate Justice and, for four instances, acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was sworn in as member of the High Court by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on October 26, 2001 until his retirement on October 26, 2019.
context_section_description: Born in Davao City, Justice Carpio finished grade school and high school at the Basic Education Units of Ateneo de Davao University. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1970 and his law degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law at UP Diliman where he graduated valedictorian and cum laude in 1975. He ranked sixth with a rating of 85.70% in the 1975 Philippine Bar Examination.
  Fresh out of law school, Justice Carpio went into private practice and founded the Carpio Villaraza and Cruz law firm. He soon emerged as one of the more prominent and successful legal practitioners in the country. Justice Carpio also taught tax law, corporate law, and negotiable instruments law at the UP College of Law from 1983 to 1992.
  In 1992, he joined the administration of President Fidel Ramos as Chief Presidential Legal Counsel of the Office of the President. As such he worked for major reforms in telecommunications, shipping, civil aviation, and insurance industries. During the presidency of Joseph Estrada, Carpio returned to private practice and penned a regular opinion column published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
  Justice Carpio was the first appointee of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to the Supreme Court of the Philippines after her assumption into office in January 2001. At the age of 52, he was one of the youngest appointees to the High Court.
  Justice Carpio has received the Presidential Medal of Merit by then President Fidel Ramos for his "distinguished and exemplary service" to the Republic, the Outstanding Achievement in Law Award from the Ateneo de Manila Alumni Association, and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the Ateneo de Davao University. The University of the Philippines Alumni Association named him Outstanding U.P. Alumni in Public International Law in 2015 and the Most Distinguished Alumni in 2017.
  Being the Senior Associate Justice, he assumed the post as the Acting Chief Justice in May 29, 2012 until the President appoints a new chief justice. He assumed the post after his predecessor, Renato Corona was convicted by the Senate Impeachment court for his failure to disclose in his Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth, dollar accounts that led to his removal in office, a penalty authorized by the 1987 Constitution. He assumed the post again on March 1, 2018 as Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno filed an indefinite leave in the midst of impeachment proceedings against her.
  Associate Justice Carpio was the former Chair of the Second Division and Chair of the Senate Electoral Tribunal. He also headed the High Court's Committee on the Revision of the Rules of Court.
caption: Office of Antonio T. Carpio, new Supreme Court of the Philippines building.
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