Mirjam Bikker

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Mirjam Bikker
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Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
31 March 2021
Leader of the Christian Union in the Senate
In office
11 June 2019 – 31 March 2021
Preceded byRoel Kuiper
Succeeded byTineke Huizinga
Senator of the Netherlands
In office
22 December 2016 – 31 March 2021
In office
9 June 2015 – 1 September 2016
Municipal councillor of Utrecht
In office
16 March 2006 – 24 January 2013
Personal details
Born
Mirjam Hannah Bikker

(1982-09-08) 8 September 1982 (age 39)
Gouda, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Political partyChristian Union
Children3
ResidenceUtrecht
Alma materUtrecht University (LLM, law)
OccupationPolitician

Mirjam Hannah Bikker (born 8 September 1982) is a Dutch politician who has served as a member of the House of Representatives since 2021. A member of the Christian Union (CU), she was previously elected to the municipal council of Utrecht in 2006 and Senate in 2015.

Biography[]

Bikker grew up in Moordrecht and Nunspeet; she attended her secondary education in Elburg. She studied law at Utrecht University and specialised in constitutional and administrative law. As a student she was also chairwoman of , a local student society belonging to the Reformed .

From 2006 to 2013, she was a member of the municipal council of the city of Utrecht, as well as also group chairwoman. In 2007, she received national attention by protesting against a woman in a golden bikini on a big poster in the centre of Utrecht.[1] From 2008 to 2010 and again from 2013 to 2015, she was a policy assistant to the Christian Union group in the House of Representatives. In 2015, she joined the Senate. In 2019, she became group chairwoman, succeeding Roel Kuiper.

In 2021, she was elected to the House of Representatives. She has been mentioned as a potential minister in the upcoming Fourth Rutte cabinet.[2]

Mirjam Bikker is married, has three children and lives in Utrecht. She is a member of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN).

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