What is Jose Melo?
{{Infobox Officeholder | smallimage= | name=Jose Melo | image = | honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]] | honorific_suffix = | office = 128th [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines]] | term_start = August 10, 1992 | term_end = May 30, 2002 | predecessor = [[Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera]] | successor = [[Conchita Carpio-Morales]] | appointer = [[Fidel Ramos]] | office2 = [[Commission on Elections (Philippines)|Chairman of the Commission on Elections]] | term_start2 = March 25, 2008 | term_end2 = January 16, 2011 | predecessor2 = [[Romeo A. Brawner]] | successor2 = [[Sixto Brillantes]] | appointer2 = [[Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo]] | nationality = Filipino | birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|5|30|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Manila]], [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippine Islands]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|10|18|1932|5|30|mf=y}} | death_place = Manila, the Philippines | spouse = Norma Cruz Melo }} '''Jose Armando R. Melo''' (May 30, 1932 &ndash; October 18, 2020) was a [[Philippines|Filipino]] lawyer and jurist. He was an [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines|Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the Philippines]] from 1992 to 2002. He is a former Chairman of the [[Commission on Elections (Philippines)|Commission on Elections]] (COMELEC).<ref name=gma>{{cite news| title=Arroyo names Jose Melo as new chief of Comelec |publisher=GMA News.TV |url=http://www.gmanews.tv/story/78088/Arroyo-names-Jose-Melo-as-new-chief-of-Comelec |date=January 26, 2008 |access-date=February 12, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Melo is Comelec chairman |publisher=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20080325-126298/UPDATE-2-Melo-sworn-in-as-Comelec-chairman |date=March 25, 2008 |access-date=March 25, 2008 |url-status=dead |ar