FIRST FILIPINA Aurora Amada Carandang-Gloria First

Commercial Pilot
Pacita Abad- First Ten Outstanding Young
Men (TOYM) Awardee in the Field of Arts Minita Chico-Nazario First Woman Justice
of the Sandiganbayan Court
Sister Maria Rosalina Abejo First Music
Conductor Solita Collas-Monsod First Director General
of the National Economic and Development
Honoria Acosta-Sison First Physician Authority

Guadalupe Adaza First Governor of a Mercedes Concepcion First Demographer

Province
Carmen Concha First Film Producer
Estefania Aldaba-Lim First Minister of Social
Services and Development Nieves Confesor First Secretary of Labor

Natividad Almeda-Lopez First Associate Bong Coo First to be Included in the

Justice International Hall of Fame in Bowling

Emily Altomonte-Abrera First Chief Albina Manalo Dans First Chairperson of the
Executive of a Major Advertising Company Civil Service Commission

Rosa Sevilla Alvero First Head of a Non- Virginia Oteyza de Guia First Mayor
Sectarian School for Women
Arlene de la Cruz First Filipino Woman to
Encarnacion Alzona First Historian Graduate Valedictorian of the Philippine
Military Academy
Juanita Dy Amatong First Executive Director
of the World Bank Corazon Santos de la Paz First Elected to the
World Board of a Major Accounting Firm
Josefina Phodaca Ambrosio First Filipino
Women President of the Federacion Honorata "Atang" de la Rama First to
Internacional de Abogadas Appear in the Movies (Silent Films)

Corazon Cojuangco Aquino First Corazon Alma de Leon First Member of the
President International Civil Service Commission of the
United Nations
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo First Vice
Fe del Mundo First National Scientist
President
Nora Deslate First Ultra Marathoner
Claire Baltazar First Entomologist
Maria Luisa Dimayuga First Police General
Helen Benitez First President of Philippine
Women's University Genoveva EdrozaMatute First to Win the
Palanca Award for Short Story in Filipino
Paz Marquez Benitez First Short Story
Writer Narcisa de Leon Escaler First Permanent
Representative to the United Nations
Consuelo S. Blanco First President of a State
University Belen FarbosCalderon First to Hold a Seat
in the Philippine Stock Exchange
Carmen A. Buyson First Consul of the
Philippines
Girme M. Fontanilla First International Lourdes Lauchengco Sanvictores First
Chess Master Board Member of the Chamber of Commerce of
the Philippines
Raquel del Rosario Fortun First Forensic
Pathologist Trinidad Fernandez Legarda First
Ambassador
Maria del Pilar Francisco Villaceran First
Lawyer Cecile Licad First Pianist to Win an
International Music Award
Jovita Fuentes First Opera Singer to Gain
International Renown Narzalina Zaldivar Lim First Secretary of
Tourism
Celia Gallego-Bantegui First Meteorologist
Alicia Llamado-Reyes First Governor of the
Griselda Garcia-Bausa First Geologist Development Bank of the Philippines

Betty Go-Belmonte First Newspaper Rosario Lopez First Chair of the Securities
Publisher of a National Daily and Exchange Commission

Filomena Francisco Guerrero First Leah Lorenzo First Summa cum Laude of the
Pharmacist Philippine Military Academy

Belen Enrile Gutierrez First Certified Public Severina Luna-Orosa First Newspaper
Accountant Columnist

Pilar Hidalgo-Lim First Filipino Woman to Victoria Mendiola-Ela First Agriculturist

Graduate with Honors from the University of the
Philippines Elvegia Ruiz Mendoza First Brigadier of the
Armed Forces of the Philippines
Daisy HontiverosAvellana First to Found a
Theater Group Maria Paz MendozaGuazon First Doctor
Educated in the Philippines
Magdalena Jalandoni First Filipino
Published Woman Novelist Pelagia Mendoza-Zamora First Sculptor

Josefa Jara-Martinez First Social Worker Cecilia Munoz-Palma First Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court

Thelma Navarrete Clemente First President

Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc First Editor of a of the Philippine Hospital Association
National Daily Corazon
Carmencita Noriega Reodica First
Juliano-Agrava First Judge of the Court of Secretary of Health
First Instance
Perla Santos Ocampo First President of the
Agueda Iniquinto Kahabagan First General International Pediatrics Association
in the Philippine Revolutionary Army
Elisa Sanchez Ochoa First Filipino
Norberta Lapuz-Laurea First Professor of Congresswoman
Law
Leonor Orosa-Goquingco First
Choreographer
Consuelo Padilla Osorio First Film Director Mercedes Tan Gotianum First Bank
President
Loreto Paras-Sulit First Secretary General of
the Philippine National Red Cross Filipina First Gliceria Rustia Tantoco First Owner of a
in Alphabetical Order (continued) Retail Chain

Lourdes Paredes-San Diego First Presiding Geronima Tomelden Pecson First Senator
Justice of the Court of Appeals
Carolina Flores Trinidad First Major Radio
Cristina Parel First Statistician Personality

Carmen Planas First Councilor Teofila Aquino Varsovia First Veterinarian

Kerima Polotan-Tuvera First to Win the Alicia Vergel First to Win the Filipino
Palanca Award for Short Story in English Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS)
Award Carmen
Camellia Posoncuy First Neurosurgeon
Wilson-Ylanan First Basketball Coach
Lourdes Sevilla Quisumbing First Secretary
of Education Purificación Haydee Yorac First Commissioner of the
Commission on Elections
Valera Quisumbing First Chair of the United
Nations Commission on Human Rights Esperanza Araullo Zamora First Hotelier

Emerita S. Quito First with a Doctorate in

Philosophy

Leticia Ramos-Shahani First United Nations

Assistant Secretary-General for Social
Development and Humanities

Engracia Cruz Reyes First Restaurateur

Francisca ReyesAquino First National Artist

in Dance

Lea Salonga First to Win the Sir Lawrence

Olivier Award and the Tony Award for Best
Actress

Tecla San Andres-Ziga First Bar Top notcher

Leonora Paraan San Agustin First

Chemical Engineer

Miriam Defensor Santiago First Secretary

of Agrarian Reform

Salud Santos-Tesoro First Entrepreneur of

Native Handicrafts

Teresita Cruz Sison First President of the

Philippine Bar Association