Senator Joker P. Arroyo
| EDUCATION | : | Law, A.B. University of the Philippines AAPL, Ateneo de Manila |
DURING the MARCOS DICTATORSHIP 1972-1986
Human Rights Lawyer, Freedom Fighter
• First lawyer to challenge before the Supreme Court the constitutionality of Proclamation 1081 imposing martial law.
• Thereafter, he joined other lawyers in questioning before the Supreme Court:
2) amendment Six that empowered President Marcos to exercise law making powers alongside the Batasang Pambansa;
3) the power of military tribunals to try civilians.
• Handled more human rights cases than any other lawyer from 1972 - 1986. Incarcerated in a military stockade.
• Gassed, injured and hospitalized during protest tallies.
• Counsel of Cory Aquino during the snap elections.
• Co-founded MABINI and FLAG.
• Member, American Bar Association
After EDSA 1986 - 1992
• Executive Secretary
• First appointee of Cory Aquino
• Chairman of the Philippine National Bank
1986 - 1990
• Executive Director for 'the Philippines, Asian Development Bank
1986 - 1990
• The Senate enacted Resolution No. 100, "Commending Jolter P. Arroyo for his Invaluable Services to the Filipino People."
• The Philippine Bar Association awarded him its Most Distinguished Award for Justice as a "man beholden to no one except to his country."
In CONGRESS 1992, 1995 and 1998
• Representative, 1st District of Makati
• Obtained 80% of the votes cast in the elections.
• 100% attendance record in the House of Representatives for 9 years from the time he was elected up to the end of his last term.
• He remained an independent throughout his 3 terms in the House of Representatives.
• Never traveled abroad on government money.
• His Statement of Assets and Liabilities has remained the same from the time he entered public service in 1986 up to the present.
• Consistently voted every year by meclin as "OUTSTANDING CONGRESSMAN OF THE YEAR"
• Lead Prosecutor, Impeachment Trial of President Joseph Ejercito Estrada
2001 to present
• Elected to the Senate
• Chairman, Senate Blue Ribbon Committee
• Chairman, Justice and Human Rights Committee
• Chairman, Public Services Committee
