Ruben T. Reyes (3 January 1939 – 13 September 2021) was a Filipino jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 2007 to 2009.
Reyes was born in Hagonoy, Bulacan, and was married to lawyer Ellie Cruz-Reyes, of Baliuag, Bulacan (head of screening and evaluation, Ombudsman office, 2001) and have four children with initials WRIT: Pastor Winston, Dr. Roselin, IT consultant Jason Immanuel and lawyer Tammy Ann.
He was a pioneer lecturer on Mandatory Continuing Legal Education, co-chair of the Supreme Court sub-committee on MCLE Draft Rules, member of the Supreme Court committee on legal education & Bar matters and resource person in Criminal and Remedial Laws at the UP Law Center.
Reyes sat on the appellate court for 13 years, and was eventually named as its Presiding Justice in December 2005.
On 14 August 2009, Reyes was found guilty by the Supreme Court of leaking an unpromulgated draft decision that he had penned in the election disqualification case against Negros Oriental Rep. Jocelyn Limkaichong.
The decision that indefinitely barred Justice Reyes from practicing law has been reversed on 16 April 2013, for humanitarian reasons.
[10] Before his retirement, he was elected member (2008-2016) of the Judicial Council, highest Court of the United Methodist Church (UMC) worldwide.
[11] Thereafter he became Church lay leader of Central United Methodist Church (Manila)[12] and Vice President-Luzon of the Philippine National Prayer Breakfast Foundation, Inc.[13] On 10 December 2015, he was honored as one of three Justices Special Awardees at the Grand Reunion of Manuel L. Quezon University Alumni Association, Inc.[14] In 2016, he was awarded Dangal ng Wika in Law and Judiciary, highest recognition by Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF).
On 30 August 2007, Reyes urged judges, lawyers and court officials to follow the example set by 3 Bulacan court salas (Branches 6, 80 and 81) using Filipino in proceedings (at the program commemorating the 157th birth anniversary of Marcelo H. del Pilar at the Bulacan State University.
07-09-13-SC: "In re - the column ‘Business Circuit,’ of Amado Macasaet in the September 18, 19, 20, and 21, 2007 issues of Malaya," Indirect Contempt, 49 pages-judgment.