Arturo Brion
| Arturo D. Brion | |
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| 161st Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court |
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In office March 17, 2008 – December 29, 2016 |
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| Appointed by | Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo |
| Preceded by | Angelina Sandoval-Gutierrez |
| Succeeded by | Noel G. Tijam |
| Philippine Secretary of Labor and Employment | |
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In office 2006–2008 |
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| President | Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo |
| Preceded by | Patricia Santo Tomas |
| Mambabatas Pambansa (Assemblyman) from Laguna | |
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In office June 30, 1984 – March 25, 1986 Served with: Rustico F. De Los Reyes, Jr. Wenceslao R. Lagumbay Luis A. Yulo |
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December 29, 1946 Manila, Philippines |
| Alma mater | Ateneo de Manila University |
| Affiliation | Fraternal Order of Utopia |
Arturo Dizon Brion (born December 29, 1946) is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He took his oath as a member of the Supreme Court on March 17, 2008. From 2006 until his appointment to the Supreme Court, Brion had served as in the Cabinet of President Macapagal-Arroyo as the Secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Brion was born on December 29, 1946 in the city of Manila, Philippines. He is the son of Edon B. Brion (a retired trial court judge) and Laura S. Dizon. He grew up and undertook his primary, secondary and part of his tertiary studies in San Pablo City, Laguna.
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts, major in Mathematics, from San Pablo Colleges in San Pablo City, Laguna, in 1970. He earned his Bachelor of Laws from Ateneo de Manila University Law School in 1974, graduating as cum laude and class valedictorian. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Ateneo Law Journal and a member of the Fraternal Order of Utopia. He took the Philippine Bar Examinations and placed first with a bar general average of 91.65%. Brion thereafter practiced law at the Siguon Reyna, Montecillo, and Ongsiako Law Offices.
He also earned a Master of Laws, with concentration in Labor and Employment Law, from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1994. He obtained a Bachelor of Laws Equivalency Programme from the same law school. He was admitted to the Law Society of Upper Canada and to the practice of law in the province of Ontario in 1992.
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