# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/teresita-de-castro
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:35:40.311Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/teresita-de-castro"
name: "Teresita de Castro"
slug: "teresita-de-castro"
description: "Teresita Leonardo de Castro is a Filipina who served as the 24th chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines; she was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte on August 28, 2018. She assumed the vacated position once her predecessor, Maria Lourdes Sereno, was removed via a quo warranto petition ; making De Castro the de jure 24th chief justice, and the first female chief justice of the Supreme Court."
tagline: "Chief Justice of the Philippines in 2018"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Decastro_in_robes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1948-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.843668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 226
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Teresita_de_Castro"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "تيريسيتا د كاسترو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresita_de_Castro"
    title: "Teresita de Castro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresita_de_Castro"
    title: "Teresita de Castro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresita_de_Castro"
    title: "Teresita de Castro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresita_de_Castro"
    title: "Teresita de Castro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresita_de_Castro"
    title: "Teresita de Castro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7702301"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump