Sam Tanson
Sam Tanson | |
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 Sam Tanson in 2015. | |
| Minister of Justice | |
| Assumed office September 6, 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Xavier Bettel |
| Preceded by | Félix Braz |
| Minister of Culture | |
| Assumed office December 5, 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Xavier Bettel |
| Preceded by | Xavier Bettel |
| Minister of Housing | |
| In office December 5, 2018 – October 11, 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Xavier Bettel |
| Preceded by | Marc Hansen |
| Succeeded by | |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg | |
| In office April 17, 2018 – December 5, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | (resigned) |
| Constituency | Sud |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 April 1977 Luxembourg City |
| Nationality | Luxembourgian |
| Political party | The Greens |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Samantha Tanson (born on 4 April 1977)[1] is a Luxembourgian 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.[1]
She was a collaborator of Luxembourgian weekly newspaper D'Lëtzebuerger Land, and from 2002 to 2005 a journalist at . She became a lawyer in 2005.[1]
In 2009, she became one of the two spokespeople of the youth organisation of The Greens 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.
From 2011 to 2018, Tanson represented The Greens in the Luxembourg communal council. From 2013 to 2017, she was the Luxembourg City échevine in charge of finance and mobility.[2]
On June 7th, 2015, she was appointed to the Council of State as a replacement for Agnès Rausch.[3] However, she resigned from that position in order to replace her party colleague Claude Adam in the Chamber of Deputies.[4] She was re-elected as a deputy in the October 2018 federal election.[5] 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, who suffered from severe illness.[6] She was appointed as the titular Minister of Justice on September 25, 2019.[6]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Sam Tanson" (in French). official website of the City of Luxembourg. Archived from the original on July 2, 2017. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
- ^ "Neue Finanzschöffin Tanson: "Wir haben viel vor". Luxemburger Wort (in German). January 15, 2014.
- ^ "D'Lëscht vun de Membere vum Staatsrot". conseil-etat.public.lu (in Luxembourgish). Council of State of Luxembourg.
- ^ "Sam Tanson ersetzt Claude Adam" (in German). . March 20, 2018.
- ^ "Déi Gréng". elections.public.lu (in French).
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Déi gréng : Tanson va officiellement succéder à Braz". Le Quotidien (in French). September 25, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
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- Sam Tanson, Government of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
- Sam Tanson's official website (in Luxembourgish) (in French)
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