Loida Posadas-Kahulugan
Loida Sales Posadas-Kahulugan is a Filiipino lawyer and a retired Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of the Philippines. She was appointed to the appellate court on June 11, 2018, and served until January 19, 2023.
Early life and education
Posadas-Kahulugan was born in Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat to Cornelio Batilo Posadas of Iloilo and Alejandra Dumlao Sales of Ilocos Sur. She finished valedictorian in both elementary and high school in Sultan Kudarat. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Notre Dame University and the National College of Business and Arts, becoming a Certified Public Accountant in 1975.In 1985, while working full time and raising three children, she pursued law at the Ateneo de Davao College of Law, graduating in 1989. She passed the Bar in 1990 and was admitted in 1991.
Career
Before joining the judiciary, Posadas-Kahulugan worked for 16 years in the private sector as accountant, auditor, and finance officer, and briefly in the Presidential Commission on Good Government.She joined the Office of the Ombudsman for Mindanao in 1989, serving as Administrative Officer, Graft Investigation Officer, and later as Prosecution Officer until 2004.
On March 1, 2004, she was appointed Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court Branch 21 in Bansalan, Davao del Sur, where she served until her appointment to the Court of Appeals in 2018.