Honorific-Prefix: | The Honorable |
Delfín Jaranilla | |
Alma Mater: | University of Tennessee Georgetown University (LLB) |
Office: | Attorney General of Philippines |
Term Start: | July 1, 1927 |
Term End: | June 30, 1932 |
Predecessor: | Alex A. Reyes |
Office2: | Secretary of Justice, Agriculture, and Commerce |
Term Start2: | February 27, 1945 |
Term End2: | July 12, 1945 |
President2: | Sergio Osmeña |
Order3: | 44th |
Office3: | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines |
Term Start3: | June 6, 1945 |
Term End3: | June 6, 1946 |
Appointer3: | Sergio Osmeña |
Predecessor3: | José Lopez Vito |
Successor3: | José Hontiveros |
Birth Name: | Delfín Jaranilla y Jebución |
Birth Date: | 24 December 1883 |
Birth Place: | La Paz, Iloilo, Captaincy General of the Philippines, Spanish Empire |
Death Place: | Philippines |
Nationality: | Filipino |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Delfín Jaranilla y Jebución (December 24, 1883 – June 4, 1980) was a Filipino judge. He served as the Attorney General of the Philippines from 1927 to 1932, as part of the American colonial Insular Government.[2] He was named Judge Advocate General and after the Japanese conquest of the Philippines was forced on the Bataan Death March.He served as Secretary of Justice, Agriculture, and Commerce in 1945. After holding the position of Secretary of Justice, he was appointed the 44th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. After the conclusion of World War II, he was selected to serve as a Justice of the Philippines on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.[3]
Jaranilla was born in La Paz, Iloilo City to Antonio Jerous Jaranilla and Juana Jebucion. In 1903, he was dispatched to the United States under the 'Pensionado' scholarship programme and studied at Santa Ana High School. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1907 with a diploma in law.[4]
He died on June 4, 1980, at age 96.
Jaranilla was portrayed by Bert Matias in the NHK miniseries Tokyo Trial (2016).