CV

• Born 19 November 1968 in Cologne; two children

• 1987 to 1998
  Abitur (higher education entrance qualification); studied Law in Marburg and Paris; first and second state examinations in law and Diplôme de Droit Français; awarded Doctorate in Law in Münster

• 1994
  Joined the SPD

• 1994 - 1998
  Member of Trier North Local Council

• 1998 - 1999
  Practiced law in Hamburg

• 1999 - 2001
  Head of Division within the Scientific Services of Rhineland-Palatinate’s State Parliament

• 2001 - 2003
  Research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe

• 2005 - 2006
  German representative at the House of the Greater Region in Luxembourg

• 2007 - 2008
  Judge at Trier Regional Court and Wittlich District Court

• 2005 - 2011
  Member of the City Council of Schweich an der Römischen Weinstraße

• since 2005
  Member of the SPD District Executive in Trier-Saarburg

• 2008 - 2013
  Advisor at the Rhineland-Palatinate State Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection

• since 2009
  Member of the Collective Municipal Council, Schweich an der Römischen Weinstraße

• 2010 - 2016
  Chair of the SPD District Executive in Trier-Saarburg

• since 2013
  Member of the German Bundestag

• 2015 - 2017
  Secretary General of the SPD

• 2017 - 2018
  Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth

• 2017 - 2018
  Acting Minister of Labour and Social Affairs

• since March 2018
  Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection

• Photo: obs/BVMW/Katarina Barley|Susie Knoll