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Minister of Defence
In office 9 January 2007 – 8 May 2009
Prime Minister	Mirek Topolánek
Preceded by	Jiří Šedivý
Succeeded by	Martin Barták
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
In office 23 January 2009 – 8 May 2009
Preceded by	Jiří Čunek (2007)
Succeeded by	Karel Schwarzenberg (2010)
Minister of Justice
In office 7 January 1997 – 22 July 1998
Prime Minister	Václav Klaus Josef Tošovský
Preceded by	Jan Kalvoda
Succeeded by	Otakar Motejl
Chairman of the Government Legislative Council
In office 7 January 1997 – 2 January 1998
Prime Minister	Václav Klaus
Preceded by	Jan Kalvoda
Succeeded by	Miloslav Výborný
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 2 December 1997 – 28 August 2013
Personal details
Born	(1951-11-21) 21 November 1951 (age 73) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Political party	TOP 09
Other political affiliations	OF(1989) ODA (1991-1998) KDU-ČSL (2001–2009)

Vlasta Parkanová, née Trnovcová (born 21 November 1951) is a Czech politician who served from January 2007 to May 2009 as the minister of Defence and shortly as minister of Justice between 1997 and 1998. She was member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1997 to 2013.

Parkanová is a graduate of the law faculty of Charles University in Prague, from 1975. She worked as a corporate lawyer from 1970 to 1990, mostly in agricultural organisations.