MARIVIC TRABAJO DARAY

Judge Marivic Trabajo Daray is the acting presiding judge of

the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 2, Tagum City. Prior
to her assignment in Tagum City, she had been a judge for
more than 9 years permanently assigned at the RTC Branch
18, Digos City and was detailed for two years at the RTC
Branches 23 and 35, General Santos City and for one year
at the RTC Branch 34, Panabo City.

She is a professorial lecturer at the Philippine Judicial

Academy of the Supreme Court handling subjects on Court
Management and Computerization and Court Procedure. She is a member of the
following committees of the Supreme Court: Committee on the Revision of the
Benchbook for Judges; Caseflow Management Committee; and Computerization
Committee. During her term in Digos City, her court was chosen as a pilot court for
caseflow management and court computerization. Prior to her appointment as the
youngest regional trial court judge, Judge Daray worked for the Office of the
Ombudsman in Mindanao as graft investigation officer, where she received the “most
outstanding lawyer” award in 1993. During her time in that position, she investigated
criminal complaints filed against public officers, served as chief of the Public Assistance
Unit, and was a media spokesperson.

Judge Daray is also a professor of law and bar reviewer at the Ateneo de Davao
University teaching subjects in Civil Law, Remedial Law, Commercial Law and
International Law. She has been a MCLE lecturer for more than five years teaching
subjects on Legal Writing and Oral Advocacy, Procedural Law, Environmental Law,
Human Rights Law, and Women and Children Laws.

With respect to her educational background, Judge Daray holds a bachelor of

law degree from Ateneo de Manila University, and both a BA in History and a master’s
degree in Management from the University of the Philippines. Currently, she is finishing
her thesis for a master of laws degree at San Beda College.

Judge Daray had received international grants and fellowship. In 2007, she was
chosen as a fellow by the US Department of State and was sent to study for four months
at the East West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii under the Asia Pacific Leadership Program.
In May 2008, she had also trained under a grant given by the University of California-
Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center and the University of Mahidol on the topic
International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at Bangkok, Thailand. Last June
2009, she was the lone Filipino recipient of a grant from the Netherlands Government
under the Netherlands Fellowship Program where she studied International Criminal Law
at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of the Leiden University at The
Hague. This year, in June, she was granted a full scholarship to attend a conference of
women leaders at Washington DC spearheaded by Women Deliver, an international
NGO working closely with the United Nations, where topics on women’s human rights
and girls’ reproductive health rights were discussed.

She has attended several trainings and seminars both here and abroad and had
also lectured and made presentations on various topics here in the Philippines and
abroad. She is also a member of the International Association of Court Administrators
(IACA).