Background
Yorac was born on March 4, 1941 in the municipality of Saravia (now East B Magalona), Negros Occidental.
Yorac was born on March 4, 1941 in the municipality of Saravia (now East B Magalona), Negros Occidental.
She earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines in 1962.
She also earned a Master of Laws major in Public International Law, minor in Anthropology from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1981. Yorac taught and served in the Admissions Screening Committee of the University of the Philippines College of Law. She was an Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of the Philippines Diliman and a Senior Researcher of the University of the Philippines Law Center.
She also became the chief legal counsel of the University of the Philippines for a few years.
She was appointed by then President Corazon Aquino to serve as Commissioner of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in 1986. Yorac vied for a seat in the Philippine Senate in the 1998 national elections but lost.
Yorac battled with ovarian cancer and died on September 13, 2005 in Chicago, aged 64. Her remains were buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
She was succeeded as PCGG Chairperson by veteran lawyer and constitutionalist Camilo Sabio.
Integrated Bar of the Philippines
Philippine Society of International Law
American Society of International Law
Free Legal Assistance Group (National Board Member)
United Presbyterian Alpha Phi Omega Sorority (Formerly Uttar Pradesh Kappa Phi Omega Sorority).
She was a member of Purple Feather( Law Honor Society while a student of law.