Grażyna Gęsicka

Grażyna Gęsicka (13 December 1951 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish sociologist and politician and a former (2006–2007) minister of Regional Development in Marcinkiewicz's and Jarosław Kaczyński's government. In 2007 she was elected to the Sejm.^[1] From 2009 until her death she was the leader of Law and Justice parliamentary caucus.

Grażyna Gęsicka's tomb in Powązki, 2011

Grażyna Gęsicka
Deputy of the VI Sejm
In office 2007 – 2010
Succeeded by	Jan Warzecha [pl]
Constituency	23 Rzeszów
Minister of Regional Development
In office 11 September – 16 November 2007 (2007-09-11 – 2007-11-16)
Prime Minister	Jarosław Kaczyński
Preceded by	Jarosław Kaczyński
Succeeded by	Elżbieta Bieńkowska
In office 31 October 2005 – 7 September 2007 (2005-10-31 – 2007-09-07)
Prime Minister	Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (2005–2006) Jarosław Kaczyński (2006–2007)
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Jarosław Kaczyński
Personal details
Born	(1951-12-13)13 December 1951 Warsaw, Poland
Died	10 April 2010(2010-04-10) (aged 58) near Smolensk, Russia
Political party	Law and Justice
Spouse	Janusz Gęsicki
Children	Klara (daughter)
Alma mater	Warsaw University
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She was born in Warsaw. In 1974, she graduated from Warsaw University's Institute of Sociology and in 1985 received her doctorate.

She was a former member of the Polish Sociological Society and the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Francaise.

She was a speaker of English and French.

She was listed on the flight manifest^[2] of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.^[3] On 25 April, she was buried in the Smolensk Cemetery Headquarters Military Cemetery in Warsaw.

On 16 April 2010, Gęsicka was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.