Milagrosa Tan  Milagrosa Tan (24 February 1958 – 30 November 2019) was a Filipina politician from the 2nd district province of Samar in the Philippines. She served as governor of Samar twice. She was the first female governor of the province who served from 2001 to 2010 and was re-elected in 2019 following the resignation of her younger sister, Sharee Ann Tan. She also served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. In November 2018, Sandiganbayan ordered the 90-day preventive suspension of Samar governor Milagrosa Tan while she is facing trial for graft and malversation of public funds with the anomalous purchase of in emergency supplies without public bidding when she was the governor of the province in 2001. Because of her conviction, Tan was disqualified from the public office. The questioned transactions pertained to worth of medicines, worth of electric fans, and worth of assorted goods and rice. In a resolution on 23 November 2018, the first division said the order is immediately executory and directed the offices of House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año to implement the suspension. Mila Tan died at a hospital in Taguig after going into cardiac arrest on 30 November 2019.