Choo Mi-ae

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Choo Mi-ae
추미애
Choo in 2020
Minister of Justice
In office 2 January 2020 – 27 January 2021
President	Moon Jae-in
Prime Minister	Lee Nak-yeon Chung Sye-kyun
Preceded by	Cho Kuk Kim Oh-soo (acting)
Succeeded by	Park Beom-kye
Leader of the Democratic Party
In office 27 August 2016 – 25 August 2018
Preceded by	Kim Chong-in (Interim)
Succeeded by	Lee Hae-chan
Member of the National Assembly
In office 30 May 2008 – 29 May 2020
Succeeded by	Ko Min-jung
Constituency	Gwangjin B (Seoul)
In office 30 May 1996 – 29 May 2004
Constituency	Gwangjin B (Seoul)
Personal details
Born	(1958-10-23) 23 October 1958 (age 65) Daegu, South Korea
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Hanyang University Yonsei University
Signature
Website	www.choomiae.com

Choo Mi-ae (Korean: 추미애; Hanja: 秋美愛; born 23 October 1958) is a South Korean politician who served as the Minister of Justice as well as five-term parliamentarian and 3rd leader of Democratic Party.

She is the first woman to hold the post after Kang Kum-sil who was appointed by then-president Roh Moo-hyun, a political mentor of the incumbent Moon Jae-in. She is also one of handful female parliamentarians who have served five or more terms at the National Assembly and the first to do so without ever being elected through proportional representation.

In 1996, she became the first woman to represent a constituency in Seoul since the Constitution was last revised as well as the first female ex-judge to be elected as a parliamentarian. She has represented the same constituency since then except for four years between 2004 and 2008.

Choo unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of her party twice in 2003 and 2008. In 2016, she became the leader of Democratic Party. When Moon Jae-in got elected as the President of South Korea during her term in 2017, she became the first woman to be the leader of a ruling party. In 2018, he became the first leader of her party to complete its fixed term of two years. Additionally, she was the first female leader of her party and its first leader raised in TK region.