Ernestine Kawai Rengiil is a lawyer from
Palau
Palau,, officially the Republic of Palau and historically ''Belau'', ''Palaos'' or ''Pelew'', is an island country and microstate in the western Pacific. The nation has approximately 340 islands and connects the western chain of the Caro ...
. She is the first woman lawyer in Palau and the first Palauan woman to serve as Attorney General. Rengiil has also represented her country in tennis.
Rengiil was admitted to the bar in
Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...
in 1987, and entered the Palau Bar Association in the same year. From 1992 to 1993, she served as Attorney General, under
Ngiratkel Etpison
Ngiratkel Etpison (3 May 1925 – 1 August 1997) was a politician and businessman from Palau. Etpison was elected President in 1988 and served from 1989 until 1993, becoming the country’s first elected president to serve a full term in office. ...
. She served a second term under the administration of President
Johnson Toribiong
Johnson Toribiong (born 22 July 1946) is a Palauan attorney and politician.[ ...]
from 2009 to 2013. In February 2017 she was re-appointed to the same position.
Rengiil has represented Palau in tennis at the
Micronesian Games
The Micronesian Games (or Micro Games, MicroGames) are a quadrennial international multi-sport event within the Micronesian region. The Games were first held in 1969 in Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands). The 2010 Micronesian Games were initially d ...
and the
Pacific Games
The Pacific Games (French: Jeux du Pacifique), is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from Oceania. The inaugural Games took place in 1963 in Suva, Fiji, and most recently in 2019 in Apia, Samoa. The Games were ...
. In 2002, she won a gold medal at the Micronesian Games. She has also coached the national team for the Pacific Oceania Tennis Junior Championships, including her daughter
Ayana Rengiil, who won a gold medal.
See also
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List of first women lawyers and judges in Oceania
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Australia and Oceania. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain dis ...
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Palauan lawyers
Women lawyers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Palauan female tennis players
Attorneys general