Una Jagose
Una Jagose KC is New Zealand's Solicitor-General and King's Counsel, appointed in February and June 2016 respectively.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Jagose was born and raised in Cambridge, New Zealand. Her parents were both medical professionals who had emigrated to New Zealand: her father was a Parsi doctor from India and her mother a nurse from Ireland.[3]
Jagose studied law at the University of Otago, followed by an LLM at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with first class honours.[2]
She was admitted to the bar in 1990 and joined the Ministry of Consumer Affairs (now MBIE) before moving to the Ministry of Fisheries where she was appointed Chief Legal Advisor in 1999. Jagose joined the Crown Law Office in 2002 and was appointed Deputy Solicitor-General in 2012. She was appointed acting director of the Government Communications Security Bureau in 2015, then as the Solicitor-General in February 2016 and as a Queen's Counsel in June 2016.[2][4]
In 2020, Jagose won the public policy category of the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Law Officers of the Crown". Crown Law. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
- ^ a b c "Twelve new Queen's Counsel". New Zealand Law Society. 8 June 2016. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ "Profile - Una Jagose, Solicitor General | ILANZ Profile | ILANZ". ilanz.org. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ "Una Jagose appointed New Zealand's next solicitor-general". Stuff. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ "Dr Siouxsie Wiles supreme winner at Stuff-Westpac 2020 Women of Influence Awards". Stuff. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.