CV

• Born in Mannheim, Germany, on 19 June 1965, one child

• 1982
  Joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)

• 1984 - 1992
  Graduated from secondary school and studied law at Mannheim and Mainz universities, first state examination in law

• 1985 – 2008
  Member and chair of Viernheim town council

• 1989 – 1997
  Member of Bergstrasse district council

• 1992 – 1995
  Legal internship at Darmstadt Regional Court, second state examination in law

• 1992 – 1998
  Lecturer in trade law and company law at Berufsakademie Mannheim

• 1995 – 1996
  Master of public administration, German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer

• since 1995 
  Lawyer

• since 1998 
  Member of the German Bundestag, constituency 188 (Bergstrasse)

• 1998 – 2013
  Member of the Bundestag Committee on Legal Affairs

• 2005 – 2009 and 2013 – 2017
  Member of the Bundestag’s Council of Elders

• 2007 – 2017
  Chair of SPD’s sub-district association in Bergstrasse, member of the SPD’s Land executive committee in Hesse

• since 2009 
  Deputy chair of the SPD district executive committee for South Hesse

• 2009 – 2011
  Spokesperson for the SPD parliamentary group’s legal affairs working group, member of the executive of the SPD parliamentary group

• since 2010 
  ice president of the THW Federal Association

• 2011 – 2013
  Deputy chair of the SPD parliamentary group

• 2013 – 2017
  First Parliamentary Secretary of the SPD parliamentary group

• since 2017 
  Member of the SPD executive committee in Bergstrasse

• since 2017 
  Deputy chair of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag

• March 2018 – June 2019
  Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance

• since June 2019
  Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection

• since 20 May 2021
  Also Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth