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Hon. Persida V. Rueda-Acosta, the fourth (4th) and youngest Chief Public Attorney yet, of the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) was sworn into office by Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Feb. 19, 2001.

Chief Acosta hails from Cabcaben, Mariveles, Bataan. She is the fourth (4th) among the nine (9) children of Florencio Rueda and the late Herminia Venturina Rueda. She was a consistent valedictorian from elementary to high school. In college, she was a consistent dean’s lister at UE, where she graduated with a BS General course, cum laude. When she took up her law studies at the Ateneo de Manila University and UE, she was Dr. Antonio del Castillo Memorial Scholar and President Dalupan Scholar, respectively. Her scholastic feat was capped by her placing fourth (4th) in the Bar Examinations of 1989.

From the time of her appointment up to now, the PAO has been blessed with cases that earned this Office, precious space in the annals of Philippine history.

Chief Acosta’s dedication to the cause of the indigent clients of PAO has been acknowledged by the government, and non-governmental offices/organizations both here and abroad, by giving her awards and grants, which include the following, to wit:

• Lingkod Bayan Award (the Highest Presidential Award for Outstanding Public Service);
• Huwarang Pilipino Award(recipient of said award for 2005 and 2003);
• Humanitarian and Community Service Award, for being One of Quezon City’s Outstanding Citizens for 2004;
• Soroptimist’s Woman of Distinction Award;
• National Maagap Award for Public Service;
• Tokyo, Japan’s Nippon Foundation-Asian Public Intellectuals Fellowships (API) research grant, for having been chosen as API Senior Fellow, and
• The International Visitor Program (with a focus on the “U.S. Judicial System”) upon the invitation of the United States Embassy, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

She remains nonchalant in the midst of all this. Because needless to say, her focus is her impassioned concern to her duties as a public servant, law professor (at the Ateneo de Manila Law School and Bulacan State University) and wife to Atty. Benedicto M. Acosta Jr., and mother to daughters Kayla Gethsemane (14) and Kamilla Persida (9).

...from Ateneo De Manila Law School, Ateneo De Manila University