Corazon Agrava

In this Philippine name for married women, the birth middle name or maternal family name is Buenaventura , the birth surname or paternal family name is Juliano, and the marital name is Agrava.
The Honourable
Corazon Juliano-Agrava
Chairperson of the Agrava Fact-Finding Board
In office
October 1983 – October 1984
Appointed byFerdinand Marcos
Preceded byPost established
Succeeded byPost abolished
Personal details
Born
Corazon Buenaventura Juliano[1][2]

(1915-08-07)August 7, 1915
Manila
DiedOctober 1, 1997(1997-10-01) (aged 82)
Quezon City
Spouse1
Parents
  • Francisco Juliano
  • Cenona Buenaventura
OccupationJudge, lawyer
Known forChairperson, Agrava Commission[3]
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Corazon Juliano-Agrava[5] (Manila, 7 August 1915 – Quezon City, 1 October 1997) was a Filipino judge and the second woman in 1954 appointed as judge of a Court of First Instance.[6] She was then president of the Court for Youth and Home Affairs in Manila.[7] Agrava gained worldwide fame when in 1984, she was appointed the chairperson of a fact-finding board commission by President Ferdinand Marcos to investigate the cause of the murder of opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. in 1983.[8][9] She has also been active in various other social and cultural organizations, including the Women Rights Movement of the Philippines, the Philippine Association of University Women, the National Civic Assembly of Women and U.P. Alumni Association.

  1. ^ Paul Donnelley (February 2012). Assassination!. Dataday Publishing, 2012. ISBN 9781908963031.
  2. ^ "Corazon Agrava".
  3. ^ William Branigin. "Marcos Names New Panel On Aquino Slaying". The Washington Post, October 1983.
  4. ^ "JUSTICE CORAZON AGRAVA LEGACY LIVES ON AS TOPS CELEBRATES ITS 50TH YEAR". 13 September 2019.
  5. ^ United States Congressional Serial Set. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1969. 1969.
  6. ^ Herminia Ancheta en Michaela Beltran-Gonzalez. Filipino women in nation building. Phoenix Publishing House, Inc., Quezon City, 1984.
  7. ^ D. H. Soriano, Isidro L. Retizos. The Philippines Who's who. Who's Who Publishers, 2nd ed. (1981).
  8. ^ Daniel B. Schirmer (1987). The Philippines Reader: A History of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Dictatorship, and Resistance. South End Press, 1987. p. 280. ISBN 9780896082755.
  9. ^ Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce (1984). Time, Volume 124, Issues 19-27. Time Incorporated, 1984.