Rowena Guanzon

thumb|Official portrait as a COMELEC Commissioner Maria Rowena Amelia Villena Guanzon (born August 29, 1957), is a Filipina lawyer, public servant, politician and activist who notably served as Philippine Commission on Elections commissioner from 2015 to 2022 under President Benigno Aquino III and President Rodrigo Duterte. She had been an audit commissioner before taking office at the Philippine Commission on Elections in February 2015. Quotes I want to be remembered as a commissioner who served with honor and excellence. I stuck to independent decisions and was the lone dissenter in several Comelec decisions. Rowena Guanzon: Who’s this poll exec in a fighting mood days before retirement? Philippine Daily Inquirer We are not a stamping pad of an overaged, disqualified pretender. On Duterte Youth chair Ronald Cardema withdrawing as nominee for alleged harassment of Commissioner Guanzon vs Cardema: He won’t destroy my reputation Rappler People in Rockwell aren’t like this, so, they are Chinese. He even said, ‘No, you are contagious, you should leave.’ Contagious, just a cough? My national pride was hurt. I said, how dare you. Former COMELEC Commissioner clarified in an interview the incident when an alleged Chinese national told her to leave the mall because she was “contagious” after she coughed. Guanzon clarifies mall ‘altercation’ Daily Tribune External links Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:Women born in the 1950s Category:Women politicians in the Philippines Category:Lawyers from the Philippines Category:Women in law