Complex sentence: Between 2000 and 2003, she served as a deputy Prime Minister and was named first woman to hold the portfolio of Defence in the second cabinet of Ivica Račan, serving from 2002 until the end of the cabinet's term in 2003.
Split into simpler sentences: Between 2000 and 2003, she served as a deputy Prime Minister in Ivica Račan's government. In 2002 she became the first woman to hold the portfolio of Defence in the second cabinet of Ivica Račan, serving until the end of the cabinet's term in 2003.