Malacanang has appointed a Dumaguetena as one of four new associate justices to the Court of Appeals (CA).
The appointment of Pamela Ann Maxino, formerly Regional Trial Court Judge of RTC Branch 51 in Guagua, Pampanga, was announced by Malacanang last March 3.{{more}}
Appointed along with Maxino were Victoria Isabel Paredes of Caloocan City, Abraham Borreta of Pasig City, and Gabriel Ingles of Cebu City.
The Supreme Court received their appointment papers signed by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. last Wednesday.
The appointees will take their oath before Chief Justice Renato Corona.
The new CA Associate Justice comes from a family of achievers. Maxino is the daughter of Carolina Lim Abella and Luciano Chua Maxino, former president of Foundation University.
Her brothers are RTC Branch 32 Judge Roderick; Dwight, vice president of Energy Development Corp; Lu, a department manager at the Dumaguete City Water District. Another brother, Winston, chief operating officer of an aluminum manufacturing company Hooven Philippines, and who was awarded Happiest Pinoy in a nationwide search last year; and Shane, a human resource manager of the Cocopalm Agricultural Group in Davao City.
Her sisters are Manila-based Dr. Cynthia Joy Uy; Science & Technology UnderSecretary Dr. Carol Yorobe, undersecretary of the Depar; and Carla Koseki, senior employee at the Philippine National Bank in Japan.
Justice Pamela Ann Maxino was honored in 2006 with an Outstanding Alumnus Award by Foundation University, where she finished her elementary (1969) and high school (1973).
She is the third CA Associate Justice to hail from Negros Oriental, after Associate Justices Venancio Aldecoa Jr., now retired, and Ramon Bato.