Teresita de Castro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Teresita de Castro

Filipino judge

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1948

Place of Birth: Manila, Luzon, Philippines

Profession: judge, lawyer

Nationality: Philippines

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Teresita "Tess" Leonardo-De Castro (born Teresita Jose Leonardo on October 10, 1948) is a Filipina who served as the 24th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines; appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte on August 28, 2018.
She assumed the vacated position since her predecessor, Maria Lourdes Sereno, was removed via a quo warranto petition (by declaring Sereno as a de facto chief justice and making her 2012 appointment as null and void ab initio); making De Castro the de jure 24th chief justice, making her officially the first female chief justice of the Supreme Court.De Castro officially retired on October 10, 2018 after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70; merely 46 days after serving as Chief Justice, surpassing the record of former Chief Justice Pedro Yap of being the shortest-tenured Chief Justice.Prior to her appointment to the High Court by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, she had been the Presiding Justice of the Sandiganbayan.