Marie-Jo Zimmermann (born 29 April 1951) is a French politician who was a

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...

, for the

Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) was a centre-right List of political parties in France, political party in France that was one of the two major party, major contemporary political pa ...

(UMP) party, between 1998 and 2017. She represented Moselle's 3rd constituency. She was born in the town of

Creutzwald Creutzwald (german: Kreuzwald) is a commune in the Moselle département in Grand Est in north-eastern France. With Germany, it manages the Warndt forest. History The town was formed in 1810, by the merging of the three villages of ''La Croi ...

, in Moselle. In 1998, she was elected to represent Moselle in the French National Assembly, and was re-elected for the same constituency in 2002, 2007 and 2012. She has been the president of the Assembly's group on women's rights, and has been sitting on the commission for Cultural Affairs. She failed to be re-elected in 2017. From 1998 to 2001, she was also a member of the regional council for

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, and from 1989 to 2002, she served as a member of the town council for

Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand ...

External links

Marie-Jo Zimmerman's official website (in French)
1951 births Living people Union for a Popular Movement politicians Women members of the National Assembly (France) Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic 21st-century French women politicians Members of Parliament for Moselle {{France-politician-UMP-stub