| Birth Date: | 15 August 1978 |
| Party: | Rwandan Patriotic Front |
| Office: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
| Termstart: | 2008 |
| Constituency: | Gatsibo District (2018–present) Eastern Province (2008–2018) |
Jeanne d'Arc Uwimanimpaye (born 15 August 1978) is a Rwandan politician. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2008. From 2013 to 2018, she served as a Deputy Speaker of the Chamber.[1]
Jeanne d'Arc Uwimanimpaye graduated in Economics from the National University of Rwanda. Before joining Parliament, she worked as a secondary school teacher, and in local government as a district internal auditor and Public Relations officer.[1]
Uwimanimpaye entered Parliament in the 2008 Rwandan parliamentary election, as one of the six women's representatives for Eastern Province.[2] In 2010, she travelled to the United Kingdom as a Commonwealth election observer of the 2010 United Kingdom general election.[3]
In the 2013 parliamentary election, Uwimanimpaye was returned to the Chamber of Deputies as a Women's representative for Eastern Province.[4] In October 2013, she was elected Deputy Speaker in charge of Government Oversight and Legislation, receiving 70 votes out of a possible 80.[5] As Deputy Speaker, she introduced the motion to allow President Kagame to run for a third term in office, after a petition had attracted 3.8 million signatures:
Uwimanimpaye was selected as a RPF-Inkotanyi candidate for the 2018 parliamentary election,[6] and elected to represent Gatsibo District in Eastern Province.[1] She stepped down as Deputy Speaker, and was succeeded by Edda Mukabagwiza of RPF-Inkotanyi.[7] In September 2019, Uwimanimpaye pressed for an investigation into financial irregularities around tenders issued by the Rwanda Agriculture Board,[8] and was also critical of procurements made by the Rwanda Cooperative Agency.[9]