Rita Tamašunienė

Rita Tamašunienė (born September 27, 1973 in Maišiagala , district of Vilnius ) is a Lithuanian politician of Polish origin. Since August 20, 2019, she has been Minister of the Interior, the first woman in this ministerial position in Lithuania .

Life

After graduating from the Maišiagala Middle School in 1991, Rita completed a degree in pedagogy and ethnic culture at the Juozas Tallat Kelpša Conservatory in Vilnius , a bachelor’s degree in educology in 2002 and a degree in German philology at the Vilniaus pedagoginis universitetas in 2003 and a master’s degree in 2006 the administration at the Mykolo Romerio universitetas in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius .

From 1994 Rita Tamašunienė worked as a teacher in Karvys . From 2004 she was director of the Pikeliškės secondary school near Vilnius . She has been a member of Seimas since 2012 and Minister of the Interior since August 2019 , the first woman in this position in the history of Lithuania .

Rita Tamašunienė is a member of Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija .

Rita Tamašunienė speaks Russian, Polish, German and English.

Rita Tamašunienė is married and has one daughter.

predecessor	Office	successor
Eimutis Misiūnas	Interior Minister of Lithuania since August 2019	-

personal data
SURNAME	Tamašunienė, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lithuanian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Maišiagala , Vilnius District Parish