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Philippine Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Famorca and the surname or paternal family name is Leonen.

Marvic Mario Victor Famorca Leonen (born December 29, ) is the Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines since May 14, upon the retirement of Senior Associate Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe.

He became an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines on November 21, – the second youngest jurist to hold the said position and the youngest after Manuel V. Moran in Prior to his stint in the country's highest court, he served as chief peace negotiator of the Republic of the Philippines in peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Leonen has been called, "The Great Dissenter" of the Supreme Court, often standing close to liberal and human rights-oriented decisions against the conservative bench close to Rodrigo Duterte and related d