Fenua Tamuera

Fenua Tamuera is a former I-Kiribati politician. She was a member of Parliament for Butaritari during the fourth Parliament of Kiribati.[1] She was the second woman to be elected to the House of Assembly, after Tekarei Russell in 1974.[2] Originally from Tuvalu, Tamuera qualified with a General Nursing and Obstetric Nursing Certificate from the Fiji School of Nursing in 1967.[3] She was elected to the House of Assembly after the death of her husband, Tamuera Taniera,[4] triggered a by-election in 1990, but she lost her seat in the subsequent 1991 Kiribati parliamentary election.[5]

  1. ^ "Members Previous Parliament". Parliament of Kiribati. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  2. ^ Van Trease 1993, p. 356.
  3. ^ Van Trease 1993, p. 375.
  4. ^ A Statistical Profile on Men and Women of Kiribati. The Department. 1997. p. 13.
  5. ^ Takashy, Tina (1995). National reviews of the Nairobi forward-looking strategies for the advancement of women: Micronesia. South Pacific Commission. p. 75. ISBN 9789822034301.