Aušrinė Norkienė

Aušrinė Norkienė (born 12 January 1975) is a Lithuanian politician and deputy chair of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union in the unicameral parliament Seimas.

Aušrinė Norkienė MP
Member of Seimas
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 November 2020
Constituency	Multi-member
In office 14 November 2016 – 13 November 2020
Preceded by	Darius Petrošius
Succeeded by	Romualdas Vaitkus
Constituency	Tauragė
Personal details
Born	12 January 1975 Pagramantis, Tauragė Distric, Lithuania
Political party	Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union
Spouse(s)	Marius Norkus
Alma mater	Šiauliai University Klaipėda University Kaunas University of Technology

Early life

Aušrinė Norkienė was born in Pagramantis, Tauragė District Municipality on 12 January 1975. She passed her secondary school with a silver medal and completed her diploma in Primary School and Music Teacher in 1996. She holds master's degrees in Family Pedagogics (1998) and Public Administration (2012) from the Klaipėda University and Kaunas University of Technology respectively.[1]

Career

In 1997, Norkienė began her career as a music teacher at the Martynas Mažvydas Secondary School. She joined the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union party in 2007 and the same year became an adviser to the mayor of Tauragė District Municipality. A year later she was promoted to the post of mayor's assistant and in 2010 was appointed the Municipal Administration's deputy director. She served in this capacity until 2015 when she was elected the deputy mayor. The same year she became the head of the party's Tauragė division. In the 2016 Lithuanian parliamentary election, she stood and won from Tauragė. She is the deputy chair of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union Political Group in the parliament.[1][2]

References

1. "Aušrinė Norkienė". Seimas. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
2. "2016 m. Seimo rinkimų rezultatai" (in Lithuanian). VRK.lt. Retrieved 30 November 2017.