Haydee Yorac
| Haydee Yorac | |
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| Chairman of the Commission on Elections | |
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In office December 7, 1989 – June 5, 1991 |
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| Appointed by | Corazon Aquino |
| Preceded by | Hilario Davide, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Christian Monsod |
| Commissioner on Elections | |
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In office July 15, 1986 – February 11, 1993 |
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| Chairman of the Presidential Commissioner on Good Government | |
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In office July 17, 2001 – September 13, 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Jorge V. Sarmiento |
| Succeeded by | Camilo Sabio |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 4, 1941 Saravia, Negros Occidental, Commonwealth of the Philippines |
| Died | September 13, 2005 (aged 64) Chicago, United States |
| Nationality | Filipino |
Haydee Bofill Yorac (March 4, 1941 — September 13, 2005) was a Filipino public servant, law professor and politician.
Yorac was born on March 4, 1941 in the municipality of Saravia (now E. B. Magalona), Negros Occidental. She earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines in 1962. She placed 8th in the 1962 Philippine Bar Examinations with an 86.95% rating. She was a member of Purple Feather( Law Honor Society while a student of law. She also earned a Master of Laws major in Public International Law, minor in Anthropology from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1981.
Yorac taught and served in the Admissions Screening Committee of the University of the Philippines College of Law. She was an Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of the Philippines Diliman and a Senior Researcher of the University of the Philippines Law Center. She also became the chief legal counsel of the University of the Philippines for a few years.
She was appointed by then President Corazon Aquino to serve as Commissioner of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in 1986.
Yorac vied for a seat in the Philippine Senate in the 1998 national elections through the Reporma–LM party of Renato de Villa but lost.
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