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Revision as of 09:19, 7 December 2021

The Right Honourable
Senator
Esther Steffensen
Elizabeth Warren by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Government Leader in the Senate
Chairperson of the Federal Council
Assumed office
24 June 2019
Preceded byFrederik Xandstrom
Shadow Leader of the Senate
In office
10 October 2018 – 24 June 2019
LeaderNiamh Cooper (2018-2019)
Clas Markussen (2019)
Preceded byIngvald Steen
Succeeded byFrederik Xandstrom
Secretary of State for International Development
In office
10 May 2015 – 17 August 2018
Preceded byAda Alver
Succeeded byAnna Bjarnisdottir
Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department
In office
23 November 2012 – 10 May 2015
LeaderAnneli Lindstrom
Preceded byJan-Erik Fransson
Succeeded byJon Sinclair
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
In office
10 June 2007 – 23 November 2012
LeaderJean Oak (2007-2010)
Anneli Lindstrom (2010-2015)
Preceded bySven Jakobsen
Succeeded byKarl Simoneau
Deputy Leader of the Democratic Party
In office
18 July 2005 – 10 June 2007
LeaderNilas Ahmadi
Preceded byNilas Ahmadi
Succeeded byParty dissolved
Senator from Nørdenavvic
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded byPål Thomsen
Member of Parliament
for Skalaholt
In office
7 July 1987 – 7 May 2015
Preceded byGabriel Solberg
Succeeded byJon Gudmundsson
Personal details
Born
Esther Marie Steffensen

(1949-06-22) June 22, 1949 (age 75)
Skalaholt, Nørdenavvic, Ørdegnien
Political partyLabour (2018 - present}
Other political
affiliations
Coalition of Socialists & Democrats (2007 - 2018)
Democratic Party (before 2007)
Alma materUniversity of Vinterviken

Esther Marie Steffensen (born 22 June 1949) is an Ørdegnien Labour Party politician, with a political career spanning 40 years. Beginning her career as a municipal politician in Vinterviken, she also worked for many years as a human rights lawyer, before being elected to Parliament in 1987, representing her native Skalaholt. Entering politics as a centrist self-described social liberal aligned with the Democratic Party, in recent years she has moved to the left, describing herself first as a social democrat, and later as a democratic socialist, joining the Labour Party following the split of the Coalition of Socialists & Democrats.