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]