Haydee Yorac (March 4, 1941-September 13, 2005) was a Filipino public servant, law professor and politician.
Yorac was born on March 4, 1941 in Sarabia, Negros Occidental. She earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines in 1962. She also earned a Master of Arts major in Public International Law, minor in Anthropology from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, in 1981.
Yorac taught and served in the Admissions Screen...
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Haydee Yorac (March 4, 1941-September 13, 2005) was a Filipino public servant, law professor and politician.
Yorac was born on March 4, 1941 in Sarabia, Negros Occidental. She earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines in 1962. She also earned a Master of Arts major in Public International Law, minor in Anthropology from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, in 1981.
Yorac taught and served in the Admissions Screening Committee of the University of the Philippines College of Law. She was an Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of the Philippines Diliman and a Senior Researcher of the University of the Philippines Law Center.
She was appointed by then President Corazon Aquino to serve as Commissioner of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in 1986. Later, she was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as Chairwoman of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), an independent agency tasked to...
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