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Suʻa Hellene Wallwork
Attorney-General of Samoa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Suʻa Hellene Wallwork-Lamb is a Samoan lawyer and jurist. Since September 2021 she has been Attorney-General of Samoa.
Wallwork is from Lefaga[1] and was educated at the University of Auckland.[2] After working in the Office of the Attorney-General, she returned to New Zealand, where she worked for the New Zealand Police and the Commerce Commission and in private practice.[2] In 2013 she returned to Samoa and established a law firm with her husband.[2] In April 2016 she was appointed Sweden's Honorary Consul in Samoa.[3]
In March 2017 she was elected President of the Samoa Law Society.[4][5] She served as vice-president for the next three years, and was elected president again in 2021.[1] As Vice-president of the society she fronted the society's submissions during the 2021 Samoan constitutional crisis, criticising O le Ao o le Malo Tuimalealiʻifano Vaʻaletoʻa Sualauvi II's attempt to stop parliament from meeting[6] and the Human Rights Protection Party's post-crisis attacks on the judiciary.[7]
She was appointed interim Attorney-General of Samoa on 4 September 2021, following the dismissal of Savalenoa Mareva Betham Annandale for failing to defend the judiciary.[2] She was sworn in on 8 September 2021.[8][1] Cabinet appointed Wallwork to a full term three-year term on 22 December 2022.[9]
She was awarded the title of Suʻa by her village in 2008.[2] In December 2022 she was named one of the Samoa Observer's people of the year.[10]
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