Annette Lu

Annette Lu
*Lu Hsiu-lien*
Annette Lu; Lu Hsiu-lien
呂秀蓮
	Official portrait, 2005
8th Vice President of the Republic of China
	In office; 20 May 2000 – 20 May 2008
President	Chen Shui-bian
Preceded by	Lien Chan
Succeeded by	Vincent Siew
Chair of Democratic Progressive Party
	Acting; 8 December 2005 – 15 January 2006
Preceded by	Su Tseng-chang
Succeeded by	Yu Shyi-kun
10th Magistrate of Taoyuan County
	In office; 28 March 1997 – 20 May 2000
Preceded by	Liau Pen-yang (acting); Liu Pang-yu
Succeeded by	Hsu Ying-shen (acting); Eric Chu
Member of the Legislative Yuan
	In office; 1 February 1993 – 31 January 1996
Constituency	Taoyuan County constituency
Personal details
Born	7 June 1944 (age 79); Tōen Town, Shinchiku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (now Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan)
Nationality	Taiwanese
Political party	Democratic Progressive Party (1986-present)
Other political; affiliations	Formosa Alliance (2018-present); ;
Alma mater	National Taiwan University; University of Illinois; Harvard University; ;
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Lawyer

Annette Lu Hsiu-lien (Chinese: 呂秀蓮; pinyin: Lǚ Xiùlián; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lū Siù-liân; born 7 June 1944) is a Taiwanese politician. A feminist active in the tangwai movement, she joined the Democratic Progressive Party in 1990, and was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1992. Subsequently, she served as Taoyuan County Magistrate between 1997 and 2000, and was the Vice President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008, under President Chen Shui-bian. Lu announced her intentions to run for the presidency on 6 March 2007, but withdrew to support eventual DPP nominee Frank Hsieh. Lu ran again in 2012, but withdrew for a second time, ceding the nomination to DPP chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen.^{[citation needed]} She lost the party's Taipei mayoral nomination to Pasuya Yao in 2018, and stated that she would leave the party. However, by the time Lu announced in September 2019 that she would contest the 2020 presidential election on behalf of the Formosa Alliance, she was still a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.