Jacqueline van den Hil

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In this Dutch name, the surname is Van den Hil, not Hil.
Jacqueline van den Hil
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
31 March 2021
Personal details
Born (1968-03-20) 20 March 1968 (age 53)
Goes, Netherlands
Political partyPeople's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Alma materTIAS School for Business and Society
OccupationHealth care manager

Jacqueline van den Hil (born 20 March 1968) is a Dutch politician of the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). She has been serving as a member of the House of Representatives since the 2021 general election. Before entering politics, Van den Hil worked as a health care manager in her native province of Zeeland.

Early life and career[]

Van den Hil was born and raised in the Zeeland city Goes.[1] She attended the secondary school Goese Lyceum at vwo level in the years 1980–86. Van den Hil wanted to study medicine but failed to get in because of the quota. In the meantime, she studied economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam but quit after two years to be trained as a radiodiagnostic laboratory technician at Oosterschelde Hospital.[1][2] Van den Hil kept working as a lab technician at the hospital after 1991, when her training was completed. She was promoted to medical imaging techniques manager in 2003.[3]

Van den Hil became the manager of the nursing home Ter Schorre in Terneuzen of senior care provider SVRZ in 2008.[1][2] While working there, she received a Master of Health Administration degree from TIAS School for Business and Society in 2010 after she had also studied management sciences at the Open University of the Netherlands between 2002 and 2008.[3] Van den Hil was hired as manager of SVRZ's Ter Valcke location in Goes in 2013 and kept working there until she became an MP.[1]

She also served on the board of Alzheimer Zeeland (2009–15) and on the supervisory board of Stichting Intervence Jeugdzorg (2018–20).[3]

Politics[]

Van den Hil joined the VVD in 2006 and was a board member of its Kapelle branch between 2009 and 2015.[1][3] She was placed fifteenth on the VVD's party list in Kapelle in the 2018 municipal election.[4] Van den Hil ran for member of parliament in the 2021 general election as the VVD's 25th candidate and was elected with 3,543 preference votes.[5] She was sworn into the House of Representatives on 31 March as the only member from Zeeland and became her party's spokesperson for health care labor market policy, health care professions and education, mental health care, homeless shelters, and health care in the Caribbean Netherlands.[6][7] Van den Hil is a member of the Committees for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation; for Health, Welfare and Sport; for Infrastructure and Water Management; and for Kingdom Relations.[3]

Personal life[]

Van den Hil is a resident of her birthplace Goes, she is unmarried, and she is part of the LGBT community.[1][3][8] She lived in the nearby village Kapelle between 2000 and 2017.[1] Van den Hil joined a local Rotary club in 2007 and has been the chair of the Goes Rotary Club since 2019.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Van den Hil, Jacqueline (2 December 2020). "Goese staat 'uit het niets' hoog op VVD-lijst: 'Ik word geen Kamerlid uit Zeeland, maar Zeeuws Kamerlid'" [Goes resident has a high place on the VVD party list 'out of nowhere': 'I will not be an MP from Zeeland but a Zeeland MP']. PZC (Interview) (in Dutch). Interviewed by Jeffrey Kutterink. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Biografie, onderwijs en loopbaan van Jacqueline van den Hil" [Biography, education, and career of Jacqueline van den Hil]. Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Jacqueline van den Hil". Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Verkiezingsprogramma Gemeente Kapelle" [Election program Kapelle municipality] (PDF) (in Dutch). VVD Kapelle. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 17 maart 2021 Proces-verbaal" [Results general election 17 March 2021 Report] (PDF). Kiesraad (in Dutch). 29 March 2021. pp. 15 and 157. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  6. ^ Julen, Jeannine; Kieskamp, Wilma (27 March 2021). "De opvallendste nieuwkomers in de Tweede Kamer" [The most striking newcomers in the House of Representatives]. Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Jacqueline van den Hil". VVD (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  8. ^ "Jacqueline van den Hil". Rainbowvote.nu (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 May 2021.
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