Kristine Jarinovska is legal scientist, doctor of laws Dr. iur. doctor iuris of University of Latvia and was the Secretary of State of Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia

Latvia

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Jarinovska was raised in the United States

United States

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 state of Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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. She graduated from the Catholic Xavier High School

Xavier High School (Appleton, Wisconsin)

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 in Appleton, Wisconsin

Appleton, Wisconsin

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 in 1997.

Jarinovska graduated from Riga Graduate School of Law

Riga Graduate School of Law

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 in 2003. She served as a civil servant from 1999 in the Latvian Ministry of Justice, mainly as Director of the Department of Methodology and Systematization. She participated in a legal research network of European Union

European Union

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independent experts, investigating fundamental rights, legal aid, European law and other law research topics.

Jarinovska was appointed as the State Secretary for Ministry of Education and
Science in 2006.