Hon. Marian Ivy F. Reyes-Fajardo is the youngest Associate Justice appointed to the Court of Tax Appeals at the age of 45 on the date of her appointment on May 20, 2021.
Justice Reyes-Fajardo graduated cum laude with a degree of BA Psychology from the University of the Philippines – Diliman in 1996. She completed her Juris Doctor from the Ateneo De Manila University in 2000. She passed the 2000 Philippine bar examinations, with a bar average grade of 84.95%. She finished PHILJA’s Pre-judicature program with the highest grade of 96.2%.
She completed in May 2018 on Merit Scholarship her Masters of Law Degree in International Business Law at Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, with honors and top of her class with a grade point average of 4.047.
From August 2001 to June 2008, Justice Reyes-Fajardo joined Medialdea Ata Bello & Guevarra (MABG) Law Offices as junior associate up to her promotion to partnership. Thereafter, Justice Reyes-Fajardo started Reyes-Fajardo & Associates, a law office she maintained up to her appointment to the CTA.
Justice Reyes-Fajardo was the Associate Dean of the College of Law of Philippine Christian University. She was a professor, a commercial law bar reviewer and an accredited MCLE lecturer on commercial law subjects, such as Financial Rehabilitation and Insolvency, Competition Law, Securities and Security Transactions.
Justice Reyes-Fajardo served as Deputy Director of the Commission on Bar Discipline of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) from 2019 up to her appointment to the CTA in 2021. She is also a member of IBP-Cagayan.
She is a member of the ASEAN Law Association, International Bar Association, and INSOL International in London, a world-wide federation of national associations accountants and lawyers on insolvency. She is also an Ateneo Human Rights alumna.