nationality office term_start article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
filipino quezon judge of the municipal trial court in angeles and olongapo city regional trial court branch 221 judge presiding 2004 may 2001 jocelyn solis-reyes
 2004 jocelyn solis-reyes judge university of santo tomas
jocelyn solis-reyes

jocelyn solis-reyes -lrb- born c. 1960 -rrb- is a judge from the philippines .
she is , as of june 2010 , the presiding judge in the maguindanao massacre trial .
she is attached to quezon city regional trial court branch 221 .
solis-reyes is an alumna of the university of santo tomas faculty of civil law .
she served from 1992 to 1995 as a public attorney and was from 1995 to 2000 a public prosecutor .
in may 2001 she took up a post as presiding judge of the municipal trial court in angeles and olongapo , pampanga , progressing to her appointment in 2004 as a quezon city regional trial court judge .
among her early prominent cases was the 2007 prosecution of chief public attorney persida rueda-acosta by an attorney alleging illegal termination of her employment .
solis-reyes ultimately recused from the case .
solis-reyes was assigned to the maguindanao massacre case by lottery draw in december 2009 , after the previously selected judge , luisito cortez , had declined the case on security grounds .
solis-reyes initially refused security when assigned to the ampatuan case , but was later assigned philippine national police protection under a compulsory provision .
