Sam Tanson

Sam Tanson
Tanson in 2022
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg
Incumbent
Assumed office
21 November 2023
ConstituencyCentre
In office
17 April 2018 – 5 December 2018
Preceded byRoberto Traversini
Minister of Justice
In office
6 September 2019 – 17 November 2023
Preceded byFélix Braz
Succeeded byElisabeth Margue
Minister of Culture
In office
5 December 2018 – 17 November 2023
Preceded byXavier Bettel
Minister of Housing
In office
5 December 2018 – 11 October 2019
Preceded byMarc Hansen
Succeeded byHenri Kox
Personal details
Born (1977-04-04) 4 April 1977 (age 47)
Luxembourg City
Political partyThe Greens
OccupationLawyer

Samantha Tanson (born on 4 April 1977)[1] is a Luxembourgish lawyer and politician. She was the Minister of Culture from December 2018 to November 2023 and the Minister of Justice from September 2019 to November 2023. 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 Luxembourg weekly newspaper D'Lëtzebuerger Land, and from 2002 to 2005 a journalist at RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg [fr]. 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 (alongside 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 7 June 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 general 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 5 December 2018.

Tanson meeting in 2023 with U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg Tom Barrett

On 6 September 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 25 September 2019.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Sam Tanson" (in French). official website of the City of Luxembourg. Archived from the original on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Neue Finanzschöffin Tanson: "Wir haben viel vor". Luxemburger Wort (in German). 15 January 2014.
  3. ^ "D'Lëscht vun de Membere vum Staatsrot". conseil-etat.public.lu (in Luxembourgish). Council of State of Luxembourg. 24 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Sam Tanson ersetzt Claude Adam" (in German). RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg. 20 March 2018.
  5. ^ "Déi Gréng". elections.public.lu (in French).
  6. ^ a b "Déi gréng : Tanson va officiellement succéder à Braz". Le Quotidien (in French). 25 September 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
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