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Tekarei Russell
Minister for Health and Family Planning of Kiribati
In office
1975–1977
Member of Parliament
for South Tarawa
In office
1971–1977

Tekarei Tibwere Russell (born 1937) is a Gilbertese former politician.[1]

After been educated at the Elaine Bernacchi School, she became a secondary school teacher in 1959, in Bikenibeu, and was the first woman to be elected to the Legislative Council of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony, when she was elected MP for South Tarawa (the capital city) in 1971. Re-elected in 1975, she was appointed Minister for Health and Family Planning, serving from 1975 to 1977, whereupon she retired from politics and returned to teaching. She was subsequently awarded the Pride of Kiribati medal.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Pacific Islands History", Queensland University of Technology, p.13


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