About Renato Corona
Renato Tereso Antonio Coronado Corona (October 15, 1948 – April 29, 2016) was a Filipino judge who served as the 23rd Chief Justice of the Philippines from 2010 until his removal from office in 2012. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, Corona worked as a law professor and private practitioner before joining the cabinets of Presidents Fidel V. Ramos and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. In 2002, Arroyo appointed him Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He held the position until 2010, when Arroyo named him Chief Justice following the mandatory retirement of Reynato Puno. The appointment, made shortly after the 2010 presidential election, was questioned but was later upheld in De Castro v. JBC. During his tenure, the Supreme Court issued the landmark ruling in Hacienda Luisita, Inc. v. PARC (2011), which upheld the distribution of land to the hacienda's farm workers under the agrarian reform law and revoked the stock distribution option (SDO) agreement implemented in 1989. In May 2012, Corona was impeached and convicted for failing to disclose his financial assets as required by the Constitution, making him the first Philippine government official to be removed from office through impeachment. Corona responded by saying that "ugly politics prevailed" but that his "conscience is clear." He thus became the first high-ranking Philippine official to be removed from office through impeachment. On September 25, 2013, Senator Jinggoy Estrada, who had voted to convict, delivered a privilege speech claiming that ₱50 million had been released to each senator who voted for Corona's conviction. In his defence, he argued that he was not required to disclose US$2.4 million in bank deposits, citing the secrecy of foreign currency accounts under the Foreign Currency Deposit Act (Republic Act No. 6426).
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