Jacqueline Smith (trade unionist)

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Jacqueline Smith
Born	(1971-02-20) February 20, 1971 (age 50) Wyoming, United States
Nationality	Norwegian
Occupation	Trade unionist

Jacqueline Smith (born 20 February 1971) is a Norwegian trade unionist.

Born in Wyoming, United States to a Vietnamese American mother and a Norwegian father, she moved to Norway, first to Stavanger at the age of 8, and later to Asker. She studied law, but left the university to become a croupier for Color Line. She was elected President of the Norwegian Seafarers' Union (NSU) by the union congress in 2006 and re-elected in 2010. She is the Union's first female president, and the youngest ever when first elected in 2006.^[1]

Smith did not stand for re-election in 2014. After leaving the NSU, she continued her trade union work internationally by assuming the office of Maritime Coordinator of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) Head Office in London.

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• Jacqueline Smith on the ITF pages

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