Date of birth

10 February 1958

Place of birth

Tūjainiai Village, Šilalė District, Lithuania

Education

2005

PhD in Social Sciences (Law), Mykolas Romeris University

1976–1981

Faculty of Law, Vilnius State University (currently Vilnius University), graduation with honours

1973–1976

Secondary School in Kaltinėnai (currently Aleksandro Stulginskio Gymnasium), graduation with honours

1965–1973

Octennial School in Nuomininkai

Work experience

2006–2008

Director, Associate Professor, Institute of Law (currently Faculty of Law), Vytautas Magnus University

2000–2008

Associate Professor, Department of Administrative Law and Procedure, Mykolas Romeris University

1999–2000

Chairman, High Administrative Court

1998–1999

Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania

1997–1998

State Counsellor on State and Human Rights Affairs, Team of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania

Since 1996

Practice of the Attorney-at-Law

1996–1997

Chief Editor, Justitia Magazine of the Lithuanian Lawyers’ Association

1993–1996

Judge, Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania

1992–1993

Vice-Minister of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania

1989–1992

Judge, Supreme Court of Lithuania

1987–1989

Judge, District Court of Vilnius City

1982–1987

Trainee, Assistant Prosecutor, Senior Assistant Prosecutor,

Prosecutor’s Office of Vilnius City

1981–1982

Staff Inspector, Solicitor, conglomerate Lietzoovettiekimas

Political career

Member, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

2012–2016

Member of the 11th Seimas

Deputy Chair, Committee on Legal Affairs

Member, Commission for Ethics and Procedures (2012–2015)

Member, Constitutional Commission

2008–2012

Member of the 10th Seimas

Chair, Committee on Legal Affairs

2007–2008

Member, Vilnius City Municipal Council

Since 2005

Member, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

Miscellaneous

Membership: Initiator of the 1988 re-establishment of the Lithuanian Lawyers’ Association established in 1920, Chairman of the Association (since 2004), then Vice-Chairman and Board Member

Awards: Fourth Class Medal of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (1996); First Degree Badge Justice for All of the Latvian Prison Administration (1999); Badge of Honour For Merit to the System of the Interior from the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania (2011); First Degree Badge For Distinction from the Public Security Service under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania (2014)

Hobbies: music and reading

Languages: Lithuanian (native), Russian, German and English

Family

Married with three children