Amenta Matthew

Matthew in the centre

Amenta Matthew (born 24 June 1952) is a Marshallese politician. She was a member of the Legislature of the Marshall Islands from 2007 to 2011 and from 2015 to 2019, representing the electorate of Utrik. She was Minister of Health under Presidents Litokwa Tomeing and Jurelang Zedkaia from 2008 to 2011 and Minister of Internal Affairs under Hilda Heine from 2016 to 2019. She was the second woman in the Marshall Islands to serve as a government minister.[1][2][3][4]

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  4. ^ "Heine's Cabinet sworn in". Marshall Islands Journal. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2017.