Luzviminda Ilagan
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Luzviminda "Luz" Calolot-Ilagan is a Filipina development worker and former congresswoman. She represented the Gabriela Women's Partylist in the 14th Congress of the Philippines from 2007 to 2016. In September 2017, she was appointed by President
Rodrigo Duterte Rodrigo Roa Duterte (, ; born March 28, 1945) is a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022. He is the first Philippine president from Mindanao, and is the oldest person to assum ...
as Undersecretary for Legislative Liaison Affairs and Special Presidential Directives in the Mindanao Region of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.


Early life and career

Luzviminda Ilagan is the wife of Atty. Laurente "Larry" Ilagan. She was appointed city councilor during the Cory Aquino administration, and elected in the 1998 elections. Ilagan failed to win as city councilor for
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's 3rd district in 2016. She was the recipient of the Datu Bago Awards in 2007. Ilagan was appointed the undersecretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in September of 2017. In 2024, she was in favor of passing the divorce bill.


Batasang Pambansa bombing

Congresswoman Ilagan was injured in the 2007 bombing of the Philippine House of Representatives Building, along with Negros Oriental Congressman Pryde Henry Teves, whose eardrums and legs were damaged severely. Congressman Wahab Akbar of Basilan was killed.


See also

* Ninotchka Rosca * Liza Maza


References


External links


Luzviminda Ilagan, Gabriela, in the House of RepresentativesGabriela Women's Party official website
Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Women members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines for Gabriela Women's Party Filipino socialist feminists 21st-century Filipino women politicians 21st-century Filipino politicians {{Philippines-congressman-stub