Thelma Dumpit-Murillo is a Filipino journalist and broadcaster. She is the eldest daughter of La Union Representative Tomas M. Dumpit. Education Dumpit graduated from Maryknoll College (now Miriam College) with a Bachelor of Arts degree major in Mass Communication. She also holds a master's degree in National Security Administration from the National Defense College of the Philippines where she was a scholar and consistent Dean's Lister. She is also a Lopez Jaena fellow from the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication. In 2005, she took up the Command and General Staff Course CL46 at the AFP Command and General Staff College successfully completing the prescribed program on March 20, 2006 whose batch included Education Secretary Jesli Lapus among others. The CGSC is an Executive Leadership Program and in fact, is a prerequisite for promotion for military officials to the rank of General. Career Dumpit was in broadcast media for more than 20 years. She started her career as editorial assistant at the government station MBS (now PTV). In 1987, Dumpit moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she anchored The Philippine Reports, a weekly news show broadcast in the Midwest. She resumed her broadcasting career in PTV upon returning to the Philippines in 1992. In October 1995, Dumpit was hired by the Associated Broadcasting Company to lead its news team as anchor of Balitang Balita, an early evening newscast and two years later, she became the anchor of the late night newscast The Big News replacing Tina Monzon-Palma as the lead anchor due to her transfer to ABS-CBN's The World Tonight after Loren Legarda decided to leave the newscast when she ran and won as senator in the 1998 elections. Palma took Legarda's chair. After four years as its senior news anchor, Dumpit negotiated for a change in the terms and conditions of her work status and when her contract was not renewed in October 1999, she sent a letter to Jose Javier, vice president for news and public affairs of ABC, stating that she considered this a constructive dismissal of her services. On December 20, 1999 Dumpit filed a complaint against the company for illegal constructive dismissal and demanded payment for alleged damages. After the initial dismissal of the complaint by the Labor Arbiter, the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) reversed the decision and ruled in favor of reinstatement and payment of 2.6 million pesos for back wages. Following