Su'a Hellene Wallwork-Lamb | |
Office: | Attorney-General of Samoa |
Primeminister: | Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa |
Term Start: | 4 September 2021 |
Predecessor: | Savalenoa Mareva Betham Annandale |
Alma Mater: | University of Auckland |
Su'a Hellene Wallwork-Lamb is a Samoan lawyer and jurist. Since September 2021 she has been Attorney-General of Samoa.
Su'a is from Lefaga and was educated at the University of Auckland. 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. In 2013 she returned to Samoa and established a law firm with her husband. In April 2016 she was appointed Sweden's Honorary Consul in Samoa.[1]
In March 2017 she was elected President of the Samoa Law Society.[2] [3] She served as vice-president for the next three years, and was elected president again in 2021. 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[4] and the Human Rights Protection Party's post-crisis attacks on the judiciary.[5]
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.[6] She was sworn in on 8 September 2021.[7] [8] Cabinet appointed Su'a to a full term three-year term on 22 December 2022.[9]
She was awarded the title of Su'a by her village in 2008.[6] In December 2022 she was named one of the Samoa Observers people of the year.[10]