New Chief Executive Officer for the Ministry of Justice ^Featured

As Chief Executive Officer, Mrs. Pahulu has the responsibility of implementing government policies and decisions, managing the administrative, operational and broader functions and activities of the Ministry of Justice. She will also be responsible for developing and leading programs to continually improve the effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery outcomes of the Ministry of Justice.

Mrs. Pahulu holds a Bachelor of Laws (1992) from the University of East London, United Kingdom and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Anthropology (1985) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Upon graduating with her first degree from the University of Auckland, Mrs. Pahulu first entered into the civil service in 1986 as a Senior Executive Officer at the Supreme Court. During this time she learned all aspects of operation at the Courts and Registrar Generals Department.

She then left for further education at the University of East London (1988-1992), and upon completion she returned into the civil service in 1993 as an Assistant Legal Officer with the Crown Law Department. She enrolled as a practitioner that same year. A year later (1994) she returned to the Supreme Court as Deputy Registrar, then in mid-1995 she was Acting Deputy Secretary of the MOJ for a year in lieu of the substantive holder who went abroad for further studies.

In 1997 Mrs. Pahulu returned to the Supreme Court where she simultaneously took on the roles of Registrar, Sub-registrar of Registrar’s General Department and Registrar of the Chief of Police Magistrates Court. Through continuous promotions she earned the role 0f Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court in 2007. In 2009 as a Relieving Magistrate she took on the duties of a magistrate, sitting in the Magistrates Court for a short while.

Mrs. Pahulu became the Deputy Secretary in the Registrar General’s Office from 2012 until 2017. From 2017 -2018 as Acting Chief Executive Officer for the Ministry of Justice she took on the duties and responsibilities of this post to which she has now been officially appointed in 2019 as Chief Executive Officer for the Ministry of Justice.

Along with all her various roles held within the civil service, Mrs Pahulu has also contributed her time and talents carrying out other duties such as: the Chairperson of the Working Group for the Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (1995 & 2014), Member of the Executive Committee of the Pacific Judicial Committee (2006), National Coordinator for Tonga on Pacific Judicial Development Programme (2011), and Chairperson of the Family Protection National Committee (2019).

The Public Service Commission congratulates Mrs. Temaleti Manakovi Aleamotu’a Pahulu and looks forward to her continued contributions to the Government of Tonga and the people.

- PSC