Irena Degutienė
Acting Prime Minister of Lithuania
In office May 4, 1999 – May 18, 1999
President	Valdas Adamkus
Preceded by	Gediminas Vagnorius
Succeeded by	Rolandas Paksas
In office October 27, 1999 – November 3, 1999
President	Valdas Adamkus
Preceded by	Rolandas Paksas
Succeeded by	Andrius Kubilius
Speaker of the Seimas
Incumbent
Assumed office  September 15, 2009 Acting until September 17, 2009
Preceded by	Arūnas Valinskas
Minister for Social Security and Labour
In office December 4, 1996 – October 27, 2000
Preceded by	Mindaugas Mikaila
Succeeded by	Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
Born	1 June 1949 (1949-06-01) (age 60) Šiauliai, Soviet Union (now Lithuania)
Political party	Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats
Spouse(s)	Gedminias Degutienė
Children	1 son and 1 daughter

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 Deputy Minister of Health Care in 1994. In 1996, she was elected to Seimas and re-elected in 2000.

From 2009-09-17 Irena Degutienė became Speaker of Seimas. She is the first woman to hold such position in Lithuania's history. ^[1]

[edit] References

• Profile on the Seimas website

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