Her achievements in those government offices earned her a personal promotion by then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to the National Economic and Development Authority of the Philippines.

[clarification needed] In March 2009, former Senate President Jovito Salonga and civil society groups filed impeachment charges before the Philippine Congress against Gutierrez, alleging that she mishandled cases.

[4] On July 22, 2010, a new impeachment complaint was filed against Gutierrez by then party-list representative Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel, former Brigadier General Danilo Lim and Evelyn Pestano on the basis of "illegal, unjust, improper or inefficient" handling of cases.

[6] The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee on March 10, 2011, recommended the impeachment and resignation of Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez as well as the firing of members of the Office of the Special Prosecutor for "neglecting, weakening and complicating" the plunder case against former military comptroller Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia and his family.

[9] On April 15, Gutierrez questioned the actuation of GSIS President Jose Arnulfo "Wick" who wrote Secretary Lucas Bersamin on the “legal conclusion” that she is unqualified to her new post based on a March 28 “whistleblowing complaint” against her.