Fenua Tamuera is a former I- Kiribati politician. She was a member of Parliament for Butaritari during the fourth Parliament of Kiribati. [1] She was the second woman to be elected to the House of Assembly, after Tekarei Russell in 1974. [2] Originally from Tuvalu, Tamuera qualified with a General Nursing and Obstetric Nursing Certificate from the Fiji School of Nursing in 1967. [3] She was elected to the House of Assembly after the death of her husband, Tamuera Taniera, [4] triggered a by-election in 1990, but she lost her seat in the subsequent 1991 Kiribati parliamentary election. [5]