Lucas Bersamin

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Lucas "Luke" Purugganan Bersamin (born October 18, 1949) is a Filipino lawyer and jurist who served as the 40th executive secretary of the Philippines under President Bongbong Marcos from 2022 until 2025. He previously served as the 25th chief justice of the Philippines from 2018 and 2019 and as an associate justice from 2009 to 2018. A graduate of University of the Philippines Diliman and the University of the East College of Law, Bersamin entered the judiciary in 1986, when he became a trial court judge in Quezon City. In 2003, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo appointed Bersamin to the Court of Appeals before she elevated him to the Supreme Court in 2009. President Rodrigo Duterte appointed him chief justice in 2018 before leaving the court a year later. After his departure, he chaired the Government Service Insurance System from 2020 to 2022 before being appointed as the executive secretary under President Marcos, but he was later fired by President Marcos in 2025 due to corruption...

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