Samantha Tanson (born on 4 April 1977)
is a
Luxembourg
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ish lawyer and politician. She has been the Minister of Culture since December 2018 and the Minister of Justice since September 2019. She was also the Minister of Housing between December 2018 and October 2019.
Biography
Tanson studied at
Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris and completed her studies with a master's degree in law and a diploma from
Sciences Po Paris
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, mottoeng = Roots of the Future
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.
She was a collaborator of Luxembourg weekly newspaper ''
D'Lëtzebuerger Land'', and from 2002 to 2005 a journalist at . She became a lawyer in 2005.
In 2009, she became one of the two spokespeople of the youth organisation of
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party. She was the spokeswoman of the party from 2009 to 2010 (algonside Christian Goebel) and later chaired the party. Moreover, she was the vice-chairwoman of the party foundation ''Grénger Stëftung'' alongside
Claude Turmes
Claude Turmes (born 26 November 1960) is a Luxembourgish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 until 2018. He is a member of the Green Party, part of the European Green Party.
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.
From 2011 to 2018, Tanson represented The Greens in the
Luxembourg communal council Luxembourg communal council (french: Conseil communal de Luxembourg) is the local council for the commune of Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg.
It consists of twenty-seven members, elected every six years by proportional representation.
Cu ...
. From 2013 to 2017, she was the Luxembourg City ''
échevine'' in charge of finance and mobility.
On June 7th, 2015, she was appointed to the
Council of State
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as a replacement for Agnès Rausch. However, she resigned from that position in order to replace her party colleague
Claude Adam in the
Chamber of Deputies
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. She was re-elected as a deputy in the
October 2018 federal election.
Nonetheless, she resigned from her seat to take office as the Minister of Housing and the Minister of Culture within the
Second Bettel–Schneider Ministry on December 5th, 2018.
On September 6, 2019, Tanson became the interim Minister of Justice as a replacement for
Félix Braz
Félix Braz (born 16 March 1966) is a Luxembourgish politician who served as Second Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 2018 to 2019. A member of the Greens, Braz also served as Minister of Justice in the Bettel-Schneider coalition governme ...
, who suffered from severe illness.
She was appointed as the titular Minister of Justice on September 25, 2019.
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References
External links
Sam Tanson
Government of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
Sam Tanson's official website
(in Luxembourgish)
Women lawyers
Women radio journalists
The Greens (Luxembourg) politicians
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg)
Women government ministers of Luxembourg
Ministers for Justice of Luxembourg
Members of the Council of State of Luxembourg
Female justice ministers
People from Luxembourg City
1977 births
Living people
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