REYNATO PUNO
REYNATO PUNO
- Position: Currently Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
- Civil Status: Married
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Filipino
- Spouse: Luzviminda T. Puno
- Religion: United Methodist
Born in Manila, Reynato Puno received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Jurisprudence and Bachelor of Law Degree from the University of the Philippines (UP) in 1962. Then he went to the United States for his post-graduate studies in 1966. He was a grantee of a full scholarship given by the Academy of American Law for a degree of Master of Comparative Laws at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He was also awarded full scholarship by the Walter Perry Johnson Foundation for a degree of Master of Laws at the University of California in Berkeley, California. He was also given a tuition scholarship by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, from where he finished all academic requirements for the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science Degree. He was given the Doctor of Humanities degree (honoris causa) by the Philippine Wesleyan Univeristy in 1994. Justice Puno finished the degree of Master of Comparative Laws with high honors and as valedictorian of a class consisting of 23 graduate scholars from various parts of the world.
While a post-graduate student, he bagged five awards given by the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co. of New York and the Bancroft Whitney Publishing Co. of California, namely, the American Jurisprudence Prizes for Excellence in US Constitutional Structure, Comparative Private International Law, International Organization, Problems in Doing Business Abroad and Commercial Law.