Paulė Kuzmickienė

As of late 2025, Kuzmickienė has not received any official state awards or honors. Her public biography lists no decorations or special titles, indicating she hasn’t been bestowed with state orders or similar honors to date.

Paulė Kuzmickienė was born on April 30, 1978 in the city of Utena, Lithuania.

She is divorced and has one child (a daughter).

In 2005, she earned a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from Vilnius Pedagogical University (now part of Vytautas Magnus University’s Academy of Education).

She completed her secondary education in 1996 at Utena’s Fourth Secondary School, now known as Dauniškis Gymnasium.

Between 2012 and 2014, Kuzmickienė was an adviser to Member of European Parliament Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė.

From 2010 to 2012, she served as an adviser on regional policy to Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius.

In 2009–2010, she was an adviser to Vygaudas Ušackas, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania at that time.

In 2008–2009, she served in the Qualifications Service under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania.

From 2000 to 2008, Kuzmickienė worked at the Lithuanian Labour Market Training Authority’s council under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour.

Following the 2024 elections, she continued in the leadership of her political group, being named Deputy Chair of the TS-LKD faction in the 14th Seimas as well.

In the 13th Seimas (2020–2024 term), she served as a Deputy Chair of the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group (parliamentary faction).

In September 2019, Paulė Kuzmickienė became a member of the Seimas (parliament) by winning a by-election, serving from 26 September 2019 to 13 November 2020 in the 12th Seimas.

She served as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) party from 2014 to 2019.

Kuzmickienė was a member of the Vilnius City Municipal Council for two consecutive terms from 2011 until 2019.

Within the Vilnius City Council, she chaired the Education and Culture Committee and also led the Council’s Control Committee during her tenure.

While on the Vilnius Council, she also headed the Memory Culture Group and served as Deputy Chair of the city’s Commission for Urban Place Names, Memorial Plaques and Monuments.

Paulė Kuzmickienė has been a member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) since around 2010; she first stood as a TS-LKD candidate in the 2011 Vilnius city council elections. (The exact date she joined the party is not publicly documented.)

Starting in November 2024 (the 14th Seimas), Kuzmickienė has been a member of both the Committee on Social Affairs and Labour and the Committee for the Future.

In the new Seimas term, as of December 2024, Kuzmickienė has been appointed Deputy Chair of the Commission for the Cause of Freedom and National Historical Memory and remains a member of the Freedom Prize Commission.

On March 12, 2024, the Seimas Social Affairs and Labour Committee unanimously elected Kuzmickienė as its chair, replacing Justas Džiugelis (the outgoing chairman), with final approval pending from the full Seimas.

In March 2024, she transitioned from the Health Committee to the Social Affairs and Labour Committee; she briefly served as a member there (March 10–18, 2024) before becoming the Chair of that committee on March 19, 2024.

After March 2024, upon stepping down as chair, she continued to participate as a member of both the Freedom and Historical Memory Commission and the Freedom Prize Commission until the end of the term in late 2024.

From March 2021 until March 18, 2024, Kuzmickienė chaired the Seimas Commission for the Cause of Freedom and National Historical Memory, which oversees issues of historical justice and remembrance.

From November 19, 2020, Kuzmickienė was a member of the Seimas Committee on Health Affairs, a position she held until March 9, 2024.

She was also appointed as a member of the newly established Committee for the Future on December 17, 2020, serving on that committee through the entire 2020–2024 Seimas term.

She also served as Chair of the Freedom Prize Commission (which selects laureates of Lithuania’s Freedom Prize) from December 10, 2020 until March 18, 2024.

As a newly elected MP, she became a member of the Seimas Committee on Social Affairs and Labour on September 30, 2019, and served on that committee until the end of the 2016–2020 term.

She was again elected to the Seimas in the 2024 parliamentary elections, continuing as a TS-LKD representative in the 14th Seimas (2024–2028).

In the October 2020 Seimas elections, Kuzmickienė dominated the contest in Vilnius’s Žirmūnai district. In the first round she secured 37.71% of the vote – far ahead of the nearest competitor (13.05%) – virtually assuring her victory. She won the runoff and retained her seat. Similarly, in the 2024 elections she again prevailed in Žirmūnai, winning the second round with 55.9% of votes against her opponent’s 34.5%.

In 2020, Kuzmickienė was re-elected to the Seimas from the same Žirmūnai constituency, beginning her full term in the 13th Seimas (2020–2024).

In each parliamentary election she has contested, Kuzmickienė won a seat by prevailing in Vilnius’s Žirmūnai single-member constituency (the 2019 by-election, and the 2020 and 2024 general elections), rather than through the party list.

Across her parliamentary career, Kuzmickienė has consistently won her seat through the Žirmūnai single-member constituency rather than via the party list. She is one of the few politicians to have won the same constituency in three consecutive elections (the 2019 by-election, and the 2020 and 2024 general elections). Because of these victories, her ranking on the TS-LKD national list never had to be used – her list mandate went to other candidates. (In 2020, for instance, since Paulė Kuzmickienė won in Žirmūnai, her seat on the TS-LKD list was taken by the next candidate in line.)

She won the September 2019 parliamentary by-election in Vilnius’s Žirmūnai single-member constituency, which was held after MP Aušra Maldeikienė left for the European Parliament.

In the September 22, 2019 by-election runoff in Žirmūnai (Vilnius), she narrowly defeated Social Democrat leader Gintautas Paluckas, receiving 2,803 votes (52.03%) against Paluckas’s 2,531 votes (46.98%).

On July 19, 2019, as the TS-LKD candidate in Vilnius’s Žirmūnai by-election, Kuzmickienė became the first candidate to submit the required supporting signatures for her nomination – she gathered almost 1,400 voter signatures, above the 1,000 minimum needed.

In the first round of the 2019 Žirmūnai by-election, Kuzmickienė led with 34.5% of the vote, advancing against Social Democrat leader Gintautas Paluckas, whom she defeated in the runoff.

As a Member of Parliament, Kuzmickienė must file annual declarations of her assets and income. These are submitted to the Chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK) and made publicly accessible via the tax authority’s database.

As a Seimas member, Kuzmickienė earns roughly €3,356 per month before taxes (the standard MP salary, with higher pay for committee chairs).

Unlike some colleagues (e.g., LVŽS leader Ramūnas Karbauskis, who declared multimillion-euro properties), Kuzmickienė’s asset disclosures show no such large holdings, indicating her personal wealth is comparatively modest.

During her tenure as a Vilnius City Councillor (2011–2019), the position was essentially unpaid (council members had no fixed salary, only stipends/allowances until a 2023 reform).

She is an active participant in various inter-parliamentary friendship groups, including groups for relations with Japan, Israel, the United States, as well as a provisional group supporting democratic forces in Belarus.

In August 2024, after a temporary "desovietization" commission suspended its work and appealed to the Seimas, Kuzmickienė urged a swift resolution and asserted that the Genocide and Resistance Research Center (LGGRTC) — which had been broadcasting the commission’s meetings — should take responsibility for implementing the commission’s mandate.

In July 2024, she publicly criticized the director of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center (LGGRTC), Arūnas Bubnys, calling his cost estimates for planned reforms "incorrect" and implying he was trying to obstruct those reforms.

In March 2023, as Chair of the Freedom Fights and National Memory Commission, Kuzmickienė called on schools and communities to commemorate March 15 as the "Day of Rescuers of Lithuanian Jews", encouraging educational events to honor those who saved Jews during the Holocaust.

She also invited the public to mark the 105th birth anniversary of Lithuanian anti-Soviet partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas (born 1918), emphasizing remembrance of national freedom fighters.

In 2022, Kuzmickienė petitioned the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language to change the Lithuanian name of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad, proposing to restore the historic name "Karaliaučius" in official usage.

Around 2020, Kuzmickienė issued a public statement urging Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga to address the rising number of postpartum depression cases and to strengthen support for affected mothers.

During the 2019 by-election campaign, Kuzmickienė highlighted education reform and budget issues as key priorities, saying that helping teachers and reviewing the 2020 state budget would be major tasks if she were elected.