Romeo A. Brawner

Who was Romeo A. Brawner?

Romeo Aliac Brawner was a Filipino public official who served as a Commissioner of the Philippine Commission on Elections from 2005 until his death from a heart attack in May 2008. From February to March 2008, he served as the Acting Chairman of the COMELEC, by virtue of his being the most senior Commissioner on the Commission, replacing Resurreccion Borra on the February 2, 2008 after the latter had retired.

Brawner earned his law degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1959. He entered the Philippine judiciary in 1975 as a trial court judge in Baguio City. In 1995, he was appointed by President Fidel Ramos as a Justice of the Court of Appeals of the Philippines. In 2005, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appointed Brawner as Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals. Immediately upon his retirement from the Court of Appeals, having reached the compulsory retirement age of 70, President Arroyo named Brawner as Commissioner of the COMELEC.