He Rong (; born 12 October 1962) is a Chinese politician currently serving as deputy Chief Justice and executive vice president of the

Supreme People's Court The Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China (SPC; ) is the highest court of the People's Republic of China. It hears appeals of cases from the high people's courts and is the trial court for cases about matters of national ...

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. She previously held the position of

Deputy Party Secretary In modern Chinese politics, a Deputy Party Committee Secretary (; also translated as Deputy Party Secretary, deputy party chief, vice party chief) serves as the lieutenant to the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, and thus the deputy ...

Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see #Name, § Name) is a landlocked Provinces of China, province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichu ...

province from 2018 to 2020. She is one of less than a handful of women who served in office at the provincial level. She has a professional background in law.

Biography

Born in Linyi County,

Dezhou Dezhou () is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Jinan to the southeast, Liaocheng to the southwest, Binzhou to the northeast, and the province of Hebei t ...

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

province she studied litigation at the

China University of Political Science and Law China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 中国政法大学; Traditional Chinese characters, traditional Chinese: 中國政法大學; pinyin: ''Zhōngguó Zhèngfǎ Dàxué'', abbr. � ...

. She joined the Communist Party of China in June 1984. A legal professional by trade, she rose through the Beijing court system as a researcher, law clerk, then judge. She was named the chief of the Second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing, and then deputy chief of the Beijing High Court (a court of appeal). In December 2011, she began serving on the

as part of the jury. In October 2013 she was elevated to the vice-president of the Supreme People's Court. In March 2017, He was named a member of the Shaanxi

provincial party standing committee Members of the standing committees of the Chinese Communist Party provincial-level committees, commonly referred to as ''Shengwei Changwei'' (), make up the top ranks of the provincial-level organizations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I ...

. In March 2018, she was named deputy party chief of Shaanxi. In April 2020, He was appointed to the Supreme People's Court of China, making her the most senior female judge in China.

References

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