PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has appointed lawyer Jose Mejia as a member of the Supreme Court’s Judicial and Bar Council (JBC), Malacañang said on Saturday.
Mejia, a long-time professor at De La Salle University (DLSU), took his oath as a JBC member before Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on Friday.
He will represent the private sector in the JBC, the multi-sectoral body that carefully screens nominees to the judicial branch, the Office of the Ombudsman, and its deputies.
The JBC is tasked to prepare a shortlist of nominees, from which the President would pick an appointee.
NEW JBC MEMBER Lawyer Jose Mejia (left) takes his oath before Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on July 19, 2024, as a member of the Judicial and Bar Council following his appointment by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Malacañang said on July 20. PHOTO COURTESY OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Members of the JBC serve for a period of four years and may be re-appointed by the President.
Mejia previously served as a regular member of the JBC, representing the academe with the rank of a Court of Appeals Associate Justice.
After finishing his second term at the JBC in 2017, he went back to DLSU to resume his teaching as well as to the Ligon Solis Mejia Florendo Law firm to continue his law practice.
Mejia finished both his AB Economics and Bachelor of Laws degrees at the Ateneo de Manila University in 1980 and 1985, respectively.
After graduation from law school, he went into practice by joining the law office and later on became a staff in the Senate office of late ex-senator Rene Saguisag.
After his Senate stint, he was appointed director at the Department of Agrarian Reform before he went back to private life as vice president for Legal Affairs of TVI Pacific Inc., a Canadian mining company.
Thereafter, he joined the Ligon Solis Mejia Florendo Law Firm, where he is currently a senior partner.
During all the years after he passed the bar in 1986, he was actively involved in the academe by teaching part-time at the Ateneo School of Law, College of the Holy Spirit, DLSU and Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, where he was eventually appointed as university secretary and legal counsel.
Later, he joined DLSU as a full-time professor and chairman of the Commercial Law Department. He retired as a full-time professor when he turned 60 on Jan. 14, 2020, but was re-hired as a part-time faculty, where he now holds the rank of a senior professional lecturer.
For his social involvement, Mejia is a member of the Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity, the Fraternal Order of Utopia, and a proud member of the Rotary Club of Timog-Quezon City.
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