Worldwide
Guide to Women in Leadership
Parliament of Lithuania/ Lietuva Independent
1918-40 and 11.3.90/6.9.91 (Female suffrage 1918)
Also see Lithuania Ministers
Till 1992 Supreme Council = Auksiavsiogi Taryba, afterwards Seimas
1920 Chairperson of the Constituting Session of the Constituent Seimas
Gabriele Petkevičaietė (15.5.20)
Possibly in the capacity of the oldest member, she chaired the first sitting of
the Constituent Assembly pending the election of a President
the same day. 5 of the 149 members of the Assembly were women
1959-67 Member of the Presidium O.A. Yrgelayvichienė
1965 Vice-Chairperson E.V. Kazakavskienė
1965 Member of the Presidium S.I. Shevelykova
1975-89 Vice-Chairperson Iadviga Greichiuvienė
1975-89 Vice-Chairperson Elena Markiavienkenė
1976-85
Vice-Chairperson Leokadija
Diržinskaitė-Piliušenko
Vice-President 1959-69 Deputy
Premier in charge of Culture and Minister of Foreign Affairs 1960-76. Her name
is also written as Leokaida
Ivozovna Dirginskaitė-Pihusenko
or Pilyushenko. She was a Candidate Member
of the Politburo of the Communist Party 1960-62, Vice-Chairperson of the
Presidium of the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet 1976-85.
(b. 1918-)
1985-90 Vice-Chairperson Vanda Klikunienė
1989-90 Vice-Chairperson Kasda Kuikumienė
1989-90 Member of the Presidium Danutė
Baltusienė
1989-90 Member of the Presidium Zina Suiredova
1989-90 Member of the Presidium Broné Šlevienskienė
1989-90 Member of the Presidium Valentina Vyšniauskaitė
1992-93 Kancleri (Secretary General) Lamina Andrikienė
Deputy Minister of Trade in 1991 and 2000 President of the Baltic
Assembly
1999-2000 Vice-Chairperson Rasa Juknevičienė
2008-09 First Deputy Speaker Irena Degutienė
2009-12
Speaker
2012-13 First Deputy Speaker
2013-16 Deputy Speaker
Former Minister and Acting Prime Minister.
2008-13 Deputy Speaker Virginija
Baltraitienė
2013-16 Speaker Loreta Graužinienė
Also Vice-President of
the Labour Party and Presidential Candidate in 2009 (b. 1963-)
2016-
Deputy Speaker Rima Baškienė
Last update 16.11.16