Agnes Vicenta Salayo Torres-Devanadera (born April 5, 1950), also known as Agnes VST Devanadera, is a Filipina lawyer and politician who served as the chairperson of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) from 2017 to 2022. During the Arroyo administration, she served as the Solicitor General of the Philippines from 2007 to 2010, the first woman to hold the post. She was also the acting Secretary of Justice on two short stints. Career Devanadera was the 41st Solicitor General of the Philippines. She was appointed on February 22, 2007, by then-Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, succeeding Antonio Nachura who was appointed in January 2007 to the post of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Devanadera assumed office on March 2, 2007. She is the first woman to occupy the office. Before her appointment, Devanadera was a government corporate counsel. She also became a candidate for the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines that was being vacated by Ruben T. Reyes after his retirement on January 2, 2009. President Arroyo initially appointed Devanadera Department of Justice (DOJ) officer-in-charge on September 1, 2007, then as acting secretary of the department on September 5, 2007, to temporarily assist then-department secretary Raul Gonzalez, 75, when the latter was hospitalized for a bleeding stomach ulcer and later had kidney transplant. Alberto Agra succeeded her as Government Corporate Counsel at the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel (OGCC) of the DoJ. Devanadera is an Ateneo de Manila Law School alumnus whose mentor is Hernando Perez, a former Secretary of Justice. Timeline Devanadera was mayor of Sampaloc, Quezon, from 1988 to 1998. She was president of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines during the term of President Fidel Ramos. Devanadera contributed to PIRMA's (People's Initiative for Reform, Modernization and Action) gathering of signatures for constitutional change to let Ramos seek reelection and lift the term limits of local officials. She was executive director of Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats from June 1998 to August 2000. She was appointed undersecretary for legal and legislative affairs, Department of the Interior and Local Government from April 1, 2003, to August 31, 2004. Devanadera is a protégé of former Justice Secretary Hernando Perez, (who like her father, is resident of Batangas). She worked as Perez' partner in Balgos and Perez law office, 1976 to 1987. Devanadera became a senior partner of the Libarios, Jalandoni, Devanadera