Ernestine Kawai Rengiil is a lawyer from Palau. She is the first woman lawyer in Palau and the first Palauan woman to serve as Attorney General.[1] Rengiil has also represented her country in tennis.

Rengiil was admitted to the bar in Hawaii in 1987, and entered the Palau Bar Association in the same year.[2] From 1992 to 1993, she served as Attorney General, under Ngiratkel Etpison. She served a second term under the administration of President Johnson Toribiong from 2009 to 2013. In February 2017 she was re-appointed to the same position.[3]

Rengiil has represented Palau in tennis at the Micronesian Games and the Pacific Games.[4] In 2002, she won a gold medal at the Micronesian Games. She has also coached the national team for the Pacific Oceania Tennis Junior Championships, including her daughter Ayana Rengiil, who won a gold medal.[5]

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  1. ↑ "First Palauan Women in the Judicial System" (PDF). Palau Judiciary Court Annual Report 2013: 3.
  2. ↑ "Ernestine Rengiil". www.lawyer.com. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
  3. ↑ "Rengiil is the new Attorney General". IslandTimes. 2017-02-03. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
  4. ↑ "Ernestine Rengiil - Player Statistics". SportsTG. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
  5. ↑ Dasari, Deepthi. "10-year old Rengiil gets gold in Pacific Oceania Tennis Junior Championship". www.mvariety.com. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
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