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Miriam likes ring of RP ‘1st woman chief justice’

By Juliet Labog-Javellana
Inquirer
Last updated 02:27am (Mla time) 11/04/2006

Published on page A1 of the November 4, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

THE woman who once said she ate death threats for breakfast likes the ring of “first woman chief justice” of the Philippines.

In a phone interview yesterday with the Inquirer, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said she would “definitely” make history in the country if she clinched that title, “and I would also be the first outsider [to make it to the post] if I am chosen.”

She confessed to being torn between other “career options,” but said she had consented to being nominated to the post that would be vacated with the retirement of Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban on his 70th birthday on Dec. 7.