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Monday 21 January 2019

Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino judge, Died at 79

Leonardo A. Quisumbing was born on November 6, 1939 and died on January 21, 2019.

He was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

Quisumbing served as the President Fidel Ramos in 1998 and retired as the most senior Associate Justice of the Court on his 70th birthday in 2009.

He was a from Masbate, Masbate, Quisumbing graduated valedictorian from the Masbate High School in 1959.

 Quisumbing was a noticeable grounds figure as an undergrad understudy at the Manuel L. Quezon University, where he altered The Quezonian.

Leonardo A. Quisumbing graduated magna cum laude with a level of A.B. News coverage.

Subsequent to graduating, he enlisted at the U.P. School of Law. Quisumbing known as a dissident, he had a long record of association benefit since the 1970s.

Quisumbing was the previous Chairman of the Confederation of Industry Unions of the Philippines, (CINUP), previous leader of the National Alliance of Teachers and Allied Workers (NATAW), and previous secretary-general of the Lakas Manggagawa Labor Center (LMLC).

Leonardo A. Quisumbing passed away at 79 years old.

Saturday 12 January 2019

Patricia Wald, American judge, Died at 90

Patricia McGowan Wald was born on September 16, 1928, and died on January 12, 2019.

She was an American judge.

She was appointed as the Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) and as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Patricia Wald was the first woman to serve on the D.C. Circuit and the first to serve as Chief Judge of that same court.

Wald served as a member of the American Bar Association's International Criminal Court (ABA-ICC) Project and on the Council of the American Law Institute.

Robert Lewis Wald was her husband, he was also a Yale Law School graduate.

The couple got married in 1951 when Patricia was 23 years old; the pair met in Europe as they were both traveling the continent.

The couple had three daughters and two boys in over a span of seven years: Sarah, Doug, Johanna, Frederica, and Thomas.

They had 10 grandchildren.

Robert Wald passed away at 90 years old in Washington, D.C., from pancreatic cancer.