Una Jagose

Una Jagose is New Zealand's Solicitor-General and King's Counsel, appointed in February and June 2016 respectively.

Biography
Jagose was born and raised in Cambridge, New Zealand. Her parents were both medical professionals who had emigrated to New Zealand: her father was a Parsi doctor from India and her mother a nurse from Ireland.

Jagose studied law at the University of Otago, followed by an LLM at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with first class honours.

She was admitted to the bar in 1990 and joined the Ministry of Consumer Affairs (now MBIE) before moving to the Ministry of Fisheries where she was appointed Chief Legal Advisor in 1999. Jagose joined the Crown Law Office in 2002 and was appointed Deputy Solicitor-General in 2012. She was appointed acting director of the Government Communications Security Bureau in 2015, then as the Solicitor-General in February 2016 and as a Queen's Counsel in June 2016.

In 2020, Jagose won the public policy category of the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.