SALVE
REGINA V. VENTURANZA CORTEZ
rvcortez@pecabar.ph
In 2009, she obtained her Master of
Laws from the Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois,
USA, graduating with honors and a grade point average
of 3.925. Apart from her core courses, she took additional
courses in trial advocacy and contract drafting, and
completed a Mediation and Negotiation Workshop in the
Fall Semester of 2008. While studying in the same university,
she worked, among others, on a controversial alien tort
case which ended in a multimillion dollar settlement
in June 2009 and a UNICEF project on child protection
and juvenile justice involving Nigerian children.
In 2003, she received her Juris Doctor
degree from the Ateneo de Manila School of Law
in 2003 where she graduated with distinction as
Second Honors Silver Medal Awardee. In her undergraduate
years in law school, she obtained a ranking of
second honors and was among the top twenty (20)
of her batch in her 4th year. She was admitted to the
Philippine Bar in 2004.
She received her Bachelor of Science
degree in Business Economics (Dean's Medal Awardee)
from University of the Philippines in 1990. She
finished her undergraduate degree a semester ahead
of the regular course schedule. After college, she immediately
worked in local and off-shore banks with financial institutions
and insurance companies as clientele.
She has been active in interministry
works at the Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Chapel
in Greenhills, San Juan, since 1997. |