Prof. Zenaida N. Elepaño held the position of Deputy Court Administrator of the Supreme Court of the Philippines for 11 years until 2007 year when she was appointed as Court Administrator, the first woman ever to hold this position since the establishment of the Supreme Court 107 years ago. She obtained her degree of Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Santo Tomas Summa Cum Laude, and finished her law studies at the UST Faculty of Civil Law, class valedictorian, Cum Laude.

A litigation lawyer for twenty-one (21) years, CA Elepano taught law at the UST, the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, and was a professorial lecturer at the UP College of Law. In 1988, she joined the Bench as Regional Trial Court Judge and served as Executive Judge for two terms. In 1994, she was awarded by the Foundation for Judicial Excellence the Justice Cayetano Arellano Award as Most Outstanding RTC Judge of the Philippines. In 1995, she was promoted to the Supreme Court as Deputy Court Administrator.

She is a professorial lecturer of the Philippine Judicial Academy and the Institute of Judicial Administration of the UP Law Center. She also lectures for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education programs of the Supreme Court. She is a pre-bar reviewer in civil law and legal ethics, and was Bar Examiner in Remedial Law in 1995 and in Legal Ethics in 2006

CA Elepaño has received several international study grants given by the United States, Canada, Japan and Swedish governments and has delivered numerous lectures in national as well as international conferences on topics such as the Rule of Law, the Philippine judiciary and judicial independence, women’s and children’s rights, rules of procedure for family courts, court administration and case management. She has likewise written and published several articles, lectures and monographs on these topics. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Judicial Education Institute (CJEI).

Having recently retired as Court Administrator, she is presently Consultant of the Philippine Supreme Court on Judicial Reforms and continues to serve the Philippine Judicial Academy as Professorial Lecturer and Resource Person on Case Management, Total Quality Management for Trial Courts and Trial Court Performance Standards. She lectures at MCLE seminars on Family Law, Procedural Rules for Family Courts, Pretrial and Trial Techniques, Legal Writing, Preparation of Pleadings, Writ of Amparo and Habeas Data, Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Supreme Court Circulars affecting Lawyers and Conflict of Laws, among others.