The Honorable Ramon Paul Hernando
Hernando in December 2022
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Incumbent
Assumed office October 10, 2018
Appointed by	Rodrigo Duterte
Preceded by	Samuel Martires
Justice of the Court of Appeals of the Philippines
In office February 16, 2010 – October 10, 2018
Appointed by	Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Preceded by	Myrna Dimaranan-Vidal
Succeeded by	Bonifacio Pascua
Personal details
Born	Ramon Paul Layugan Hernando (1966-08-27) August 27, 1966 Tuguegarao, Cagayan, Philippines
Alma mater	University of Santo Tomas (BA) San Beda College (LLB)

Ramon Paul Layugan Hernando (born August 27, 1966) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte to replace Associate Justice Samuel Martires.

Education

Hernando studied at Tuguegarao East Central School from 1972 to 1978; later graduating from St. Louis High School of Tuguegarao in 1982.^[1] He earned his Bachelor of Laws from the San Beda College of Law and was admitted to the bar in 1991. He later pursued post-graduate studies at the Ateneo de Manila University Graduate School of Business and San Beda Graduate School of Law.^[2]

Career

He first worked as member of the staff of late Associate Justice Florenz Regalado and later with the staff of retired associate justice Edgardo Paras in the years after his admission into the bar. He also worked as Department of Justice prosecutor and was appointed San Pablo, Laguna Regional Trial Court judge in 2003. He was later appointed RTC judge in Quezon City in 2006, and was elevated to the appellate court in 2010. He has also taught at his alma mater San Beda and in San Sebastian College of Law and the Ateneo Law School.^[3]

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