| Ināra Mūrniece | |
| Office1: | Minister for Defence of Latvia |
| Term Start1: | 14 December 2022 |
| Term End1: | 15 September 2023 |
| Primeminister1: | Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš |
| Predecessor1: | Artis Pabriks |
| Successor1: | Andris Sprūds |
| Office2: | Speaker of the Saeima |
| Term Start2: | 4 November 2014 |
| Term End2: | 1 November 2022 |
| Predecessor2: | Solvita Āboltiņa |
| Successor2: | Edvards Smiltēns |
| Birth Date: | 30 December 1970 |
| Party: | National Alliance |
| Children: | 1 |
| Alma Mater: | University of Latvia |
| Office3: | Member of the Saeima |
| Term Start3: | 17 October 2011 |
Ināra Mūrniece (born 30 December 1970) is a Latvian journalist, politician and a member of Saeima. She was Speaker of the Saeima from 2014 to 2022. In 2022, she was succeeded in that role by Edvards Smiltēns.
In 2007, she graduated from the and in 2009, graduated from the University of Latvia. She worked as a journalist for the newspaper Latvijas Avīze, stopped working there in August 2011.[1]
In 2011, Mūrniece ran in the 11th Saeima elections from the list of the National Aliance and was elected to the Saeima. She worked in the Saeima as the Chairperson of the Human Rights and Public Affairs Commission.[2] In 2014, she was elected to the 12th Saeima and became the Speaker of the Saeima,[3] [4] and retained the position as Speaker throughout the 12th term of the Saeima.
She was elected to the 13th Saeima in the autumn of 2018. For the second term in a row, Mūrniece was elected Speaker of the Saeima, against .[5] [6] [7] Also, in next election in October 2022, she was reelected to 14th Saeima.
On 14 December 2022, Mūrniece became Minister of Defence of Latvia.
She was married to historian and politician, who was a member of the 12th Saeima. They have a daughter. They divorced in 2015.[8]