Preceded by Vytautas Kvietkauskas President Valdas Adamkus Succeeded by Andrius Kubilius Spouse Gediminas Degutis Party Homeland Union | Succeeded by Žygimantas Pavilionis Preceded by Rolandas Paksas President Valdas Adamkus Education Vilnius University | |
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Previous office Acting Prime Minister of Lithuania (1999–1999) Similar Andrius Kubilius, Rasa Juknevičienė, Mindaugas | ||
Irena Degutienė (born 1 June 1949 in Šiauliai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Lithuanian politician and member of the conservative Homeland Union, currently Speaker of Seimas. She was twice the acting Prime Minister of Lithuania, first from 4 May 1999 to 18 May 1999 and then from 27 October 1999 to 3 November 1999. She has also been the Minister for Social Security and Labour from 1996 to 2000. In 1978, she graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in medicine. For almost twenty years, she worked in Vilnius Red Cross Hospital before becoming a secretary in the Ministry of Health in 1994. In 1996, she was elected to Seimas and re-elected in 2000.
On 15 September 2009 Irena Degutienė became Speaker of Seimas, a position she held until 14 September 2012. She is the first woman to hold such position in Lithuania's history.
