Naomi Long

Naomi Long
Official portrait, 2016
Minister of Justice
Assumed office
3 February 2024
First MinisterMichelle O'Neill
Preceded byHerself (2022)
In office
11 January 2020 – 27 October 2022
First MinisterArlene Foster
Paul Givan
Vacant
Preceded byClaire Sugden
Succeeded byHerself (2024)
Leader of the Alliance Party
Assumed office
26 October 2016
DeputyStephen Farry
Preceded byDavid Ford
Deputy Leader of the Alliance Party
In office
18 February 2006 – 26 October 2016
LeaderDavid Ford
Preceded byEileen Bell
Succeeded byStephen Farry
Member of the Legislative Assembly
for Belfast East
Assumed office
9 January 2020
Preceded byMáire Hendron
In office
5 May 2016 – 1 July 2019
Preceded byJudith Cochrane
Succeeded byMáire Hendron
In office
26 November 2003 – 5 July 2010
Preceded byJohn Alderdice
Succeeded byChris Lyttle
Member of the European Parliament
for Northern Ireland
In office
2 July 2019[1][2] – 31 January 2020
Preceded byJim Nicholson
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Member of Parliament
for Belfast East
In office
6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015
Preceded byPeter Robinson
Succeeded byGavin Robinson
66th Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office
1 June 2009 – 1 June 2010
DeputyDanny Lavery
Preceded byTom Hartley
Succeeded byPat Convery
Member of the Belfast City Council
for Victoria Ward
In office
7 June 2001 – 26 August 2010
Preceded byDanny Dow
Succeeded byLaura McNamee
Personal details
Born
Naomi Rachel Johnston

(1971-12-13) 13 December 1971 (age 52)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Political partyAlliance
Spouse
(m. 1995)
[3]
RelationsAdrian Long (father-in-law)
Alma materQueen's University Belfast
AwardsBBC 100 Women (2022)[4]

Naomi Rachel Long MLA (née Johnston; born 13 December 1971) is a Northern Irish politician who has served as Minister of Justice in the Northern Ireland Executive since February 2024,[5] having previously served from January 2020 to October 2022. She has served as leader of the Alliance Party since 2016 and a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East since 2020.

Long served as Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2009 to 2010 and represented Belfast East in the Northern Ireland Assembly from 2003 to 2010. She resigned as an MLA after being elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast East at the 2010 general election. She served for one parliamentary term and lost her seat to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) at the 2015 general election. She returned to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2016, before resigning for a second time after being elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Northern Ireland in 2019. After the United Kingdom left the European Union in 2020, Long returned as an MLA and was appointed Minister of Justice in the Northern Ireland Executive.

After contesting the Westminster seat of Belfast East at the last few elections, she is once again the Alliance PPC for the constituency.

  1. ^ "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. ^ Naomi Long MLA [@naomi_long] (26 September 2020). "So, not the Silver Wedding anniversary we planned" (Tweet). Retrieved 18 May 2022 – via Twitter.
  4. ^ "BBC 100 Women 2022: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Stormont: Michelle O'Neill makes history as nationalist first minister". BBC News. 3 February 2024. Retrieved 4 February 2024.

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