2 Negrense women Cabinet secretaries
During a press conference in Davao City , the two negrenses are among the members of the Cabinet have been announced in Davao-City yesterday. Secretary for Social Welfare and Development appointed to Judy Taguiwalo from Negros Occidental while Education Secretary appointed to Leonor Briones from Negros Oriental.
The Daily Star was told by Taguiwalo that Bacolod City is the place where she was born and grown up. Her father was principal and supervisor while her mother is a retired home economics teacher. She earn her Bachelor Degree in Social Work from University of Philippines. Her Masters in Public Administration from Carleton University Ottawa, Canada and earned her doctorate degree in Philippine Studies from UP Diliman.
Leonor Magtolis Briones of Guihulngan, Negros Oriental, is Silliman University board of trustees chair, and an Outstanding Sillimanian Awardee in the field of Fiscal and Public Administration. She earned her degree in Business Administration, from SU, and her Master of Public Administration, major in Local Government and Fiscal Administration, from UP-Diliman. She also got her post-graduate diploma in Development Administration from the Harvard Institute for International Development, at Harvard University.
Other Duterte Cabinet secretaries named yesterday were Manny Piñol for Agriculture, Silvestre Bello III for Labor, Art Tugande for Transportation and Communications, Mark Villar for Public Works and Highways, Mike Sueno forInterior and Local Government, Delfin Lorenzana for National Defense, Fortunato Dela Peña forScience and Technology, Benjamin Diokno for Budget and Management, Alfonso Cusi from Energy, and last but not the least are Carlos Dominguez for Finance, Rafael Mariano for Agrarian Reform, Vitaliano Aguirre for Justice, and Perfecto Yasay Jr. For Foreign Affairs.
