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Conchita Carpio-Morales (born June 19, 1941) is an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was appointed to the Court by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on September 3, 2002. She is married to Director Eugenio T. Morales, Jr. of the LTFRB, Lipa City, with whom she has 2 sons Eugenio III and Umberto.^[1]

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Conchita was born in Paoay, Ilocos Norte to the late Judge Lucas D. Carpio (Davao del Sur) and the late Maria Claudio Carpio. She graduated high school as valedictorian.

Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales started her career in law in 1968 in a Manila law firm where she was Assistant Attorney up to 1971 when her former professor, then Secretary of Justice Vicente Abad Santos, took her in as a Special Assistant at the Department of Justice. She worked for seven years at the Justice Department as assistant, lawyer, researcher, assistant special lawyer and finally senior state counsel before she became a judge.

Three presidents recognized her public service by appointing her to the Judiciary. President Ferdinand Marcos appointed her as a trial court judge in Pili, Camarines Sur. On November 4, 1986, President Corazon Aquino designated her as trial judge in Pasay City. In 1994, President Fidel Ramos appointed her to the Court of Appeals. Upon the unanimous endorsement of the members of the Judicial and Bar Council, she was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and was sworn to office on September 3, 2002. Until her appointment to the High Court, she headed the 7th Division of the Court of Appeals.

Justice Carpio-Morales obtained a bachelor's degree in economics at the University of the Philippines and her Bachelor of Laws at that school's College of Law in 1968. She was a bar examiner in Legal Ethics in 2000. She was also conferred the Ulirang Ina Award for Law and the Judiciary by the Father’s Day/Mother’s Day Foundation of the Philippines,Inc.

Some notable opinions

• John Hay Peoples Alternative Coalition v. Lim (2003) — on authority of the President to grant tax exemptions without congressional authorization
• Francisco v. House of Representatives (2003) — on the impeachment resolution against Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr.
• La Bugal- B’Laan Tribal Association, Inc. v. Ramos I (2004) and II (2004) - Dissenting — on the constitutionality of the Mining Act of 1995 (Dissent joined by J. Ynares-Santiago)
• Tecson v. COMELEC (2004) - Dissenting — on the nationality of presidential candidate Fernando Poe, Jr. (joined by J. Quisumbing and Corona)
• Central Bank Employees v. BSP (2004) - Dissenting — on claims for wage increases of government employees in accordance with equal protection clause even absent enabling legislation
• CSC v. DBM (2005) — on fiscal autonomy of Civil Service Commission
• Yuchengco v. Sandiganbayan (2006) — on the recovery of shares of stock in PLDT as part of the ill-gotten wealth of Ferdinand Marcos
• Senate v. Ermita (2006) — on validity of presidential ban prohibiting executive officials testifying before legislative inquiries without presidential consent
• The Province of North Cotabato v. Republic (2008) - "on the unconstitutionality of the Memorandum of Agreement on the Ancestral Domain Aspect (MOA-AD) of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP)-Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Tripoli Agreement on Peace of 2001

External links

• Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales (Official Supreme Court Webpage)
• Abs-Cbn Interactive, The boundaries of presidential secrecy

References

The Puno Court
Reynato S. Puno (2006-present)
April 2, 2009– present:	L. Quisumbing | C. Ynares-Santiago | A. Carpio | A. Austria-Martinez | R. Corona | C. Carpio-Morales | D. Tinga | M. Chico-Nazario | P. Velasco, Jr. | A. Nachura| T. Leonardo-de Castro | A. Brion | D. Peralta | L. Bersamin