Vlasta Parkanová

Vlasta Parkanová
Vlasta Parkanová
Minister of Defence
	In office; 9 January 2007 – 8 May 2009
Prime Minister	Mirek Topolánek
Preceded by	Jiří Šedivý
Succeeded by	Martin Barták
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
	In office; 23 January 2009 – 8 May 2009
Preceded by	Jiří Čunek (2007)
Succeeded by	Karel Schwarzenberg (2010)
Minister of Justice
	In office; 7 January 1997 – 22 July 1998
Prime Minister	Václav Klaus; Josef Tošovský
Preceded by	Jan Kalvoda
Succeeded by	Otakar Motejl
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 2 December 1997 – 28 August 2013
Personal details
Born	21 November 1951 (age 72); Prague, Czechoslovakia
Political party	TOP 09
Other political; affiliations	OF(1989); ODA (1991-1998); KDU-ČSL (2001–2009)

Vlasta Parkanová, née Trnovcová (born 21 November 1951) is a Czech politician who served from January 2007 to May 2009 as the Minister of Defence^[1] and shortly as Minister of Justice between 1997 and 1998. She was Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1997 to 2013.

Parkanová is a graduate of the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague, from 1975. She worked as a corporate lawyer from 1970 to 1990, mostly in agricultural organisations.