Antonio Gerona | |
Birth Name: | Antonio Nicomedes Gerona |
Birth Date: | 17 January 1933 |
Birth Place: | Bulan, Sorsogon, Insular Government of the Philippine Islands |
Death Place: | Naga, Camarines Sur, Philippines |
Occupation: | Judge |
Spouse: | Salvacion Santo Tomas |
Children: | 3 (including Leni) |
Antonio Nicomedes Gerona, Sr. (January 17, 1933 – October 10, 2013) was a Filipino lawyer and jurist, known as the father of former Vice President Leni Robredo.
Gerona practiced law for 19 years before being appointed as a judge of the Municipal Trial Court in Cities, Branch 2 on July 9, 1980. He also served as a judge of Regional Trial Court Branch 28 in Naga City from January 30, 1987. Since 1995, Gerona was also a professor of Law at the University of Nueva Caceres in Naga City.[1]
Gerona hails from the Gerona clan of Bulan, Sorsogon. He married Salvacion Santo Tomas of Naga City.[2]
He died on October 10, 2013, at the Mother Seton Hospital in Naga City due to cardiac arrest.