Agnes Devanadera, Date of Birth

Agnes Devanadera

Filipino politician

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1950

Profession: lawyer, politician, minister

Nationality: Philippines

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Agnes Devanadera is the 41st Solicitor General or Attorney General of the Republic of the Philippines.
She was appointed on February 22, 2007 by then-Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, succeeding Antonio Nachura who was appointed in January 2007 to the post of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
Devanadera assumed office on March 2, 2007.
She is the first woman to occupy the office.
Before her appointment Devanadera was a Government Corporate Counsel.
She also became a candidate for the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines that was being vacated by Ruben T.
Reyes after his retirement on January 2, 2009. President Arroyo initially appointed Devanadera Department of Justice (DoJ) officer-in-charge on September 1, 2007, then as acting secretary of the department on September 5, 2007 to temporarily assist then-department secretary Raul Gonzalez, 75, when the latter was hospitalized for a bleeding stomach ulcer and later had kidney transplant.
Alberto Agra succeeded her as Government Corporate Counsel at the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel (OGCC) of the DoJ.
Devanadera is an Ateneo de Manila Law School alumnus whose mentor is Hernando Perez, a former Secretary of Justice.