Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz | |
Nationality: | Polish |
Office: | Member of the Sejm |
Term Start: | 25 September 2005 |
Term End: | 10 April 2010 |
Constituency: | 16 – Płock |
Party: | Democratic Left Alliance |
Birth Date: | 12 July 1954 |
Birth Place: | Przedbórz, Poland |
Death Place: | Smolensk, Russia |
Jolanta Dorota Szymanek-Deresz (pronounced as /pl/; 12 July 1954 - 10 April 2010) was a Polish lawyer and politician.
Szymanek-Deresz was born in Przedbórz. She was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 9,723 votes in 16 Płock district as a candidate for the Democratic Left Alliance.
She was listed on the flight manifest[1] 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.
On 16 April 2010, Szymanek-Deresz was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.