About Heather Lini-Leo Matas
Lived 1901 – 2016 (aged 114–115). Heather Lini-Leo Matas was a lawyer.
Heather Lin̄i-Leo Matas (died 2016) was a lawyer from Vanuatu. She was the country's first indigenous female lawyer.
Lin̄i-Leo was born and raised on Pentecost Island, the eighth of ten children and sister to Walter Lin̄i, the future first Prime Minister of Vanuatu. She attended primary school at Nazareth on North Pentecost and high school at the British Secondary School (present-day Malapoa College).
Lin̄i-Leo was principal legal officer at the National Provident Fund in Vanuatu.
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Who was Heather Lini-Leo Matas?
Vanuatuan lawyer
When was Heather Lini-Leo Matas born?
Heather Lini-Leo Matas was born in 1901.
When did Heather Lini-Leo Matas die?
Heather Lini-Leo Matas died in 2016.
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Heather Lini-Leo Matas was a lawyer.
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Heather Lini-Leo Matas's recorded nationality: Vanuatu.
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