Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh

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Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh
Vice President of Vietnam
In office 8 April 2016 – 6 April 2021
President	Trần Đại Quang Herself (acting) Nguyễn Phú Trọng Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
Preceded by	Nguyễn Thị Doan
Succeeded by	Võ Thị Ánh Xuân
President of Vietnam Acting
In office 21 September 2018 – 23 October 2018
Prime Minister	Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
Preceded by	Trần Đại Quang
Succeeded by	Nguyễn Phú Trọng
Secretary of the Vĩnh Long Provincial Party Committee
In office October 2010 – March 2015
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Personal details
Born	(1959-12-25) 25 December 1959 (age 62) , Quảng Nam, South Vietnam (now Vietnam)
Political party	Communist Party of Vietnam (1979–present)

Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh (born 25 December 1959) is a Vietnamese politician who served as the Vice President of Vietnam, in office from 2016 to 2021. In this capacity she was the Acting President of Vietnam from the death of President Trần Đại Quang on 21 September 2018 until the election and swearing-in of his successor Nguyễn Phú Trọng on 23 October 2018. Thịnh was the first woman in Vietnamese history to become President or Acting President of Vietnam (in the sense of a constitutional head of state in her own right). She was the first female head of state in a communist country since Soong Ching-ling of China.

Thịnh was elected Vice President of Vietnam on 8 April 2016 after winning 91.09% of votes (450 votes) in the National Assembly, continuing the recent norm of having a woman holding this position.^[1] She was a member of the 11th and 13th National Assemblies.^[2] She became a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam on 19 November 1979.

In January 2021, at the 13th National Party Congress, she was not on the list of members of the new Party Central Committee.

See also[]

• List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government

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