The Judicial and Bar Council is accepting applications and recommendations for a vacancy at the Sandiganbayan with the mandatory retirement of Associate Justice Rodolfo Ponferrada in four months.
In an announcement, the JBC said Ponferrada will retire from government service on Sept. 13 upon reaching the age of 70.
Ponferrada is one of the 16 associate justices of the anti-graft court, which currently has four vacancies for the post of associate justice.
The JBC is accepting applications in duplicate at the JBC office, Supreme Court, Padre Faura Street in Manila until July 17.
Applications sent through e-mail or fax will not be honored.
Born on Sept. 13, 1947, Ponferrada was appointed to the Sandiganbayan in August 2004.
He is chairperson of the Sandiganbayan’s sixth division, which handles the technical malversation case against then San Juan City mayor and now Sen. JV Ejercito, et al.
The retiring associate justice also used to be part of the antigraft court’s first division, which handled the pork barrel scam charges against former-Sen. Bong Revilla. —JULIE M. AURELIO