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Irena Degutienė
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Degutienė in 2012
Deputy Speaker of the Seimas
In office
16 November 2012 – 13 November 2020
Speaker of the Seimas
In office
17 September 2009 – 14 September 2012
Preceded by Arūnas Valinskas
Succeeded by Vydas Gedvilas
First Deputy Speaker of the Seimas
In office
20 November 2008 – 16 September 2009
Preceded by Algis Čaplikas
Succeeded by Raimondas Šukys
Prime Minister of Lithuania
Acting
In office
27 October 1999 – 3 November 1999
President Valdas Adamkus
Preceded by Rolandas Paksas
Succeeded by Andrius Kubilius
In office
4 May 1999 – 18 May 1999
President Valdas Adamkus
Preceded by Gediminas Vagnorius
Succeeded by Rolandas Paksas
Minister for Social Security and Labour
In office
4 December 1996 – 27 October 2000
Prime Minister Gediminas Vagnorius
Preceded by Mindaugas Mikaila
Succeeded by Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
Member of Seimas
In office
14 November 2016 – 13 November 2020
Constituency Multi-member
In office
15 November 2004 – 14 November 2016
Preceded by Vytautas Kvietkauskas
Succeeded by Žygimantas Pavilionis
Constituency Naujamiestis
In office
25 November 1996 – 14 November 2004
Constituency Multi-member
Personal details
Born (1949-06-01) 1 June 1949 (age 75)
Šiauliai, Lithuania
Political party Homeland Union
Spouse Gediminas Degutis
Alma mater Vilnius University

Irena Degutienė (born 1 June 1949) is a Lithuanian politician and member of the conservative Homeland Union. She is currently the Deputy Speaker of Seimas, and 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 Speaker of Seimas from 15 September 2009 to 14 September 2012, as well as 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. She was initially elected to Seimas in 1996. Degutienė is the first woman to be Speaker of Seimas in Lithuania's history.

Honours

National honours

  •  Lithuania Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great (6 July 2019)
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