Ewelina Dobrowolska
20th Minister of Justice of Lithuania
Assumed office
11 December 2020
Prime MinisterIngrida Šimonytė
Preceded byElvinas Jankevičius
Member of Seimas
Assumed office
13 November 2020
ConstituencyParty list
Personal details
Born (1988-08-16) 16 August 1988
Vilnius, Lithuania
Political partyFreedom Party
SpouseDaniel Dobrovolskij
Alma materMykolas Romeris University

Ewelina Dobrowolska (Lithuanian: Evelina Dobrovolska;[1] born 16 August 1988) is a Lithuanian politician and activist. She was elected to the Seimas on behalf of the Freedom Party in 2020.[2][3]

On 7 December 2020, she was appointed to serve as Minister of Justice in the Šimonytė Cabinet, succeeding Elvinas Jankevičius in that role.[4]

Biography

In 2010 she graduated BA in law from the Mykolas Romeris University and the following year she started working as an Assistant Attorney at a law firm. She became a member of the European Foundation of Human Rights. She became involved in social activities in the field of combating discrimination and protecting human rights. She represented among others numerous persons in court proceedings concerning the original spelling of surnames.

In 2019 she ran for the Vilnius City Council and she became a Councillor at the beginning of 2020. In the same year, she ran in the parliamentary elections from the list of the liberal Freedom Party. She was then elected as Member of the Seimas.[5]

In May 2022, she changed the spelling of her name to reflect her Polish ethnicity, after a law was passed which allowed Lithuanian citizens to use non-Lithuanian Latin characters in their identity documents.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Lithuania's justice minister changes her name under new law allowing Polish spelling". LRT. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  2. ↑ "Rezultatai – vrk.lt". vrk.lt. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "Ewelina Dobrowolska od stycznia będzie radną stołecznego samorządu – Wiadomości Znad Wilii". zw.lt (in Polish). 18 December 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "President approves makeup of Simonyte Cabinet". DELFI. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  5. ↑ "Evelina Dobrovolska". lrs.lt. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
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