Friday, April 27, 2018

Occidental Mindoro lass, Top 10 of the 2017 Bar Exams



She is the true beauty and brains Occidental Mindoro should be proud of.

Emma Ruby Aguilar, the 2011 Binibining San Jose made it to the Top Ten as tenth placer in the 2017 Bar Examinations. Aguilar, a graduate of University of Santo Tomas (UST) College of Civil Law, was born and raised in San Jose Occidental Mindoro. She was in Greece on an official travel when the result came out. She’s a nurse turned lawyer.

Her Facebook cover photo reads, “Dear God, I am placing 2018 in your hands.” Her FB post yesterday reads, “Still in awe for one of the biggest blessings God has given me! Thank you Lord for making me a lawyer (with a bonus) while we were on the plane from Istanbul to Greece. Literally and figuratively in cloud nine earlier!”  The news also came while her hometown is in the midst of its week-long fiesta celebration.

Aguilar was assigned in Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro in line with her short stint with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program after she finished Nursing also from UST, as cum laude. She later took up Civil Law. She garnered 88.40% in said examinations.

She is a grand daughter of former Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge Restituto Aguilar. Her father, Manny, is an engineer while her mother, Ruby, works in a bank.

The first ever Occidental Mindoro- born Bar Top Ten will take her oath on June 1 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City.

There were a total of 7,227 law graduates who were allowed to take the bar exams. The exams covered eight subjects: Political Law and Labor Law, Civil Law and Taxation, Mercantile Law and Criminal Law, Remedial Law and Legal Ethics and Practical Exercises.

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(Photo: From Emma Ruby Aguilar’s Facebook page)


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