Advocate Thulisile (Thuli) Nomkhosi Madonsela, was appointed by the President as South Africa’s third Public Protector in October 2009 after being recommended by Parliament following a hundred percent vote in her favour by all parties represented in Parliament.

The Parliament of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina elected Mr. Dejan Janca as the new Provincial Ombudsman of Vojvodina on its meeting held on 15 October 2009.

In August 2009 Yang Kun, the first chief of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, resigned for personal reasons.

In June 2009 United Kingdom lawyer Nicola Williams was appointed by the Office of the Governor as the new Complaints Commissioner for the Cayman Islands Government.