Romeo A. Brawner

Infobox Officeholder
name = Romeo Brawner


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order =
office = COMELEC Chairman
term_start = February 2
term_end = March 25, 2008
predecessor = Resurreccion Borra
successor = Jose Melo
appointer = Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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order2 =
office2 = COMELEC Commissioner
term_start2 = September 18, 2005
term_end2 = May 29, 2008 [Died in office]
appointer2 = Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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date of birth= Birth date|1935|09|17|mf=y
place of birth= Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines
date of death= Death date and age|2008|05|29|1935|09|17|mf=y
place of death= Quezon City, Philippines
nationality = Filipino

Romeo Aliac Brawner [ [http://www.comelec.gov.ph/press_statements/others/2008/loss_of_combrawner.html COMELEC grieves the loss of Commissioner Brawner] ] (September 17, 1935 — May 29, 2008) was a Filipino public official who served as a Commissioner of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) from 2005 until his death from a heart attack in May 2008. [cite news |author=Erwin Oliva |title=Comelec's Brawner dies of heart attack |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20080529-139484/UPDATE-2-Comelecs-Brawner-dies-of-heart-attack |publisher=Philippine Daily Inquirer |date=2008-05-29 |accessdate=2008-05-29 ] From February to March 2008, he served as the Acting Chairman of the COMELEC, by virtue of his being the most senior Commissioner on the Commission, replacing Resurreccion Borra on the February 2, 2008 [ [http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=107539 Brawner named COMELEC acting chairman] ] after the latter had retired.

Brawner earned his law degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1959. He entered the Philippine judiciary in 1975 as a trial court judge in Baguio City.cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=http://www.tan.org.ph/downloads/COMELEC%20CV/ROMEO_BRAWNER.doc |format=DOC |accessdate=2008-05-29 ] In 1995, he was appointed by President Fidel Ramos as a Justice of the Court of Appeals of the Philippines. In 2005, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appointed Brawner as Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals. Immediately upon his retirement from the Court of Appeals, having reached the compulsory retirement age of 70, President Arroyo named Brawner as Commissioner of the COMELEC.

Prior to his appointment as a Baguio City Court judge and later, as Regional Trial Court Judge of Branch 10 in La Trinidad, Benguet (January 1987 to August 1995), he served as a public prosecutor for 11 years, and was also a professor of law at the Baguio Colleges Foundation ((University of the Cordilleras), from 1971 to 1995. Also a native of Kiangan, Ifugao, he was a Bureau of Internal Revenue collection agent and a Knight of Columbus member. He was conferred the Chief Justice Jose Laurel Judicial Excellence Award as outstanding judge from the Foundation for Judicial Excellence in 1995. [ [http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20080603-140569/Brawnie-was-epitome-of-judges-neutrality newsinfo.inquirer.net, ‘Brawnie’ was epitome of judge’s neutrality] ]

Brawner grew up in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, and is survived by his wife Fe, a retired UP professor, with 5 children, including Army Lt. Col. Romeo Jr. [ [http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=119915 www.abs-cbnnews.com, 'Brawner was set to check out of hospital'] ] [ [http://www.gmanews.tv/story/98004/Elections-exec-Brawner-succumbs-to-heart-attack www.gmanews.tv, Elections exec Brawner succumbs to heart attack] ]

Members of the Brawner Commission

Assumed office: February 2, 2008Dissolved: March 25, 2008

ee also

*Commission on Elections (Philippines)

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