Menardo Guevarra

Menardo Guevarra is the current Solicitor General, a position to which he was appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos in June 2022.

Guevarra obtained his political science degree (magna cum laude) from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1974, and his Masters in Economics at the University of the Philippines in 1977. He completed his law degree at Ateneo in 1985 and placed second in the Bar examinations that same year.

He started public service in May 2015, under the Benigno Aquino III administration, when he was appointed to the Office of the President (OP) as deputy executive secretary for legal affairs. In February 2016, he was appointed as a commissioner of the Philippine Competition Commission.

Guevarra returned to the OP in 2016 as senior deputy executive secretary of the Rodrigo Duterte administration. In 2018, he was appointed as justice secretary. His seeming inaction on Duterte’s controversial drug war killings is seen by his critics as a stain on his otherwise illustrious career in private law and in government. Guevarra vehemently denies his alleged lack of action in investigating the killings when he was justice chief.