Atty. Mehol Sadain
Biography
Atty. Mehol K. Sadain of Jolo, Sulu is a graduate of the University of the Philippines’ College of Law, Class 1986. A Muslim Tausug reform and peace advocate. Atty. Sadain served as Commissioner of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and was Secretary of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF), where he served as concurrent member of the government peace panel in the negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). He is a Senior Professorial Lecturer at the Institute of Islamic Studies, University of the Philippines in Diliman. He is a Lawyer-Shari’ah Counselor. He is currently a convenor of the Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID). He is also a board member and vice chairman of First Asia Financial & Productivity, Inc., where he drafted An Act Providing for the Issuance of Securities by the Regional Autonomous Government in Muslim Mindanao, which was submitted to the office of the Regional Governor of ARMM in 2008. He has written several books and essays on Islam in the Philippine context, and is also a published poet.
He has been Dean of the Institute of Islamic Studies in the University of the Philippines, and chairman of the Special Shari’ah Bar Examination Committee of the Supreme Court. He has been a professorial lecturer at the College of Law at the University of the Philippines, and also lectures at the Philippine Judicial Academy of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
He graduated Valedictorian, Gerry Roxas Leadership Award recipient and Insular Life Awardee from Ateneo de Zamboanga High School, Zamboanga City (Secondary, 1972).
He finished his Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Studies under a scholarship grant from the Institute of Islamic Studies, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City (College, 1978).
He passed the Philippine Bar in 1987 after having graduated 16th in the Class of 1986 of the University of the Philippines College of Law, Diliman, Quezon City. He completed the Shari’ah Training Course sponsored by the Office of Muslim Affairs at U.P. Diliman, Quezon City in 1992.