Arpine Ashoti Hovhannisyan (Armenian: Արփինե Աշոտի Հովհաննիսյան) (born 4 December 1983) is an Armenian politician, lawyer, and current Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia. She has frequently been labeled as one of the most beautiful female politicians and is the youngest Justice Minister in the world. Hovhannisyan is also the first female to ever hold the position of Justice Minister in Armenia.
2003-2006 – A specialist of the first category of the Division of Reforms of the Criminal Executive Service of the Judicial Reforms Department of the Staff of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia.
2006-2007 – Leading specialist.
2007 – Lecturer in the Civil Law Department of Yerevan State University.
2007-2008 – Deputy Head of the Department of Examination of Legal Acts of the Staff of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia.
May 19, 2008 - September 30, 2008 – Assistant to the Chief of the Staff of the President of the Republic of Armenia.
2008-2011 - Adviser to the President of the National Assembly.
May 6, 2012 - Elected Deputy of the National Assembly by the proportional electoral system from the Republican Party of Armenia.
September 4, 2015 – President Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia signed a decree to appoint Arpine Hovhannisyan Minister of Justice.
Personal life
Arpine Hovhannisyan is unmarried. She is a supporter of involving more women in Armenian politics, and has stated that the relatively low number of female deputies in Armenia is not due to legal discrimination, but women’s psychology.
