1. Early Life

2. Career

3. Political Life

4. References

Early Life

John Castriciones graduated magna cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in political science at the then Trinity College of Quezon City, now Trinity University of Asia. He studied in the Philippine Military Academy and is a member of the PMA Maharlika Class 1994 before studying law at the San Beda College of Law and Arellano University School of Law where he was a consistent Dean’s Lister.^[3]

After passing the bar exams in 1990, he pursued further studies and obtained a master’s degree in comparative government and international law from the University of Notre Dame at its law school in the United Kingdom. His masteral thesis, “The Viability and Wisdom of Adopting the Jury System in the Philippines Legal System” earned him a Grade A, which was consequently published in the Arellano Policy Review, the official journal of the Arellano University School of Law.^[4]

Career

Castriciones is a tenured professor of law and the social sciences. Apart from teaching subjects at Xavier School, Greenhills for five years, and lecturing to police officers in Philippine Public Safety College, he also taught several law subjects at the Arellano Law School for more than nine years, including Corporate Law, Obligations and Contracts, Sales, Investment Law, Practicum 1 and 2, Legal Ethics, Public and Private International Law and Criminal Procedure. He was also an MCLE lecturer for three years for subjects in International Law, Arbitration Law and Adoption Law, among others.

He also has authored several books such as: Sagutin Natin (1984), Philippine Military Academy Hazing Case: A General’s Son Dies (1990), A Risen Catholic Christian Soldier (1998), and Internal Revolution: Political Vengeance and Societal Perdition (2011).

For more than 23 years, he was a law practitioner. During this period, he also served as legal counsel for several corporations and top government officials in controversial and precedent-setting cases.

Political Life

In 2009, he served as Director for Investigation, Security and Law Enforcement Services (ISLES) of the Department of Transportation and Communication, and as assistant spokesman and deputy chairman of the Task Force Gabay of the Tagapagligtas sa Karagatan. He was also a legal consultant at the office of Senator Koko Pimentel from 2015 to 2016.^[5]

In the beginning of the Duterte administration, he served as undersecretary for operations of the Department of the Interior and Local Government until his appointment as acting Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform following the Commission on Appointment's rejection of Rafael Mariano to the said post.^[6] As the agrarian reform secretary, Castriciones also holds various positions such as being an Ex-Officio Director of the Land Bank of the Philippines and a member of the board of directors of the National Dairy Authority.^[7]

Castriciones is also the national president of the Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte National Executive Coordinating Committee (MRRD-NECC); and founding senior partner of the Castriciones Legal Consultancy, where his children, who are also lawyers, practice their profession.

References

• The Jane Pauley Show
• The Janitor
• The Jante Law
• The Japanese Garden
• The Japan Project: Made in Japan
• The Japan That Can Say No
• The Japan that Can Say No
• The Japan Times
• The Japs
• The Jargon file
• The Jargon File
• The Jarrell, Texas Tornado
• The Jarrell Tornado
• The Jarrell, TX Tornado
• The Jason Bonham Band
• The Jaunt
• The Javits Center
• The Jaybirds
• The Jayhawks
• The Jayuya Uprising
• The Jaywalk
• The Jazz & Blues Box
• The Jazz Butcher
• The Jazz Epistles
• The Jazz Image