Ernestine Kawai Rengiil is a lawyer from

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. She is the first woman lawyer in Palau and the first Palauan woman to serve as Attorney General. Rengiil has also represented her country in tennis. Rengiil was admitted to the bar in

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in 1987, and entered the Palau Bar Association in the same year. From 1992 to 1993, she served as Attorney General, under Ngiratkel Etpison. She served a second term under the administration of President

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from 2009 to 2013. In February 2017 she was re-appointed to the same position. Rengiil has represented Palau in tennis at the

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and the

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. In 2002, she won a gold medal at the Micronesian Games. She has also coached the national team for the Pacific Oceania Tennis Junior Championships, including her daughter Ayana Rengiil, who won a gold medal.

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