Claudio Ong Teehankee served as the sixteenth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1986 to 1988, appointed by President Corazon Aquino after the fall of Ferdinand Marcos. He had earlier served nearly eighteen years as an associate justice, during which he became known for an activist approach to the bench and frequent dissents in cases he believed infringed on civil liberties, and he briefly served as Secretary of Justice under Marcos in the late 1960s. After leaving the court he served as the Philippine ambassador to the United Nations.
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