Diosdado M. Peralta is a Filipino

Philippines

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 jurist. He was appointed Associate Justice

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines

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 of the Supreme Court of the Philippines

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 by President

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 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

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 on January 14, 2009. He had been Presiding Justice of the Sandiganbayan

Sandiganbayan

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 at the time of his appointment to the Supreme Court.

Peralta graduated from the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Civil Law

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. He worked in the private sector before joining government service as an assistant city prosecutor in Laoag City

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 and Manila

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. He was appointed a trial court judge in Quezon City in 1994, then named to the Sandiganbayan in 2002 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. He was designated Presiding Justice of the Sandiganbayan in March 2008, and served in that capacity until his appointment to the Supreme Court.

Peralta is married to Fernanda Lampas-Peralta, an Associate Justice of the Philippine Court of Appeals

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