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Annemarie Jorritsma
Jorritsma in 2010

Parliamentary leader in the Senate
In office 24 November 2015 – 4 July 2023
Preceded by	Helmi Huijbregts-Schiedon
Succeeded by	Edith Schippers
Parliamentary group	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Member of the Senate
In office 9 June 2015 – 4 July 2023
Parliamentary group	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Mayor of Almere
In office 16 August 2003 – 9 September 2015
Preceded by	Hans Ouwerkerk (Ad interim)
Succeeded by	Franc Weerwind
Mayor of Delfzijl
In office 11 February 2003 – 16 August 2003 Acting
Preceded by	Ed Haaksman
Succeeded by	Henk van Hoof (Ad interim)
Deputy Prime Minister
In office 3 August 1998 – 22 July 2002Serving with Els Borst
Prime Minister	Wim Kok
Preceded by	Hans Dijkstal Hans van Mierlo
Succeeded by	Eduard Bomhoff Johan Remkes
Minister of Economic Affairs
In office 3 August 1998 – 22 July 2002
Prime Minister	Wim Kok
Preceded by	Hans Wijers
Succeeded by	Herman Heinsbroek
Minister of Transport and Water Management
In office 22 August 1994 – 3 August 1998
Prime Minister	Wim Kok
Preceded by	Koos Andriessen (Ad interim)
Succeeded by	Tineke Netelenbos
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 23 May 2002 – 30 January 2003
In office 19 May 1998 – 3 August 1998
In office 30 July 1986 – 22 August 1994
In office 16 September 1982 – 3 June 1986
Parliamentary group	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

Personal details
Born	Annemarie Lebbink (1950-06-01) 1 June 1950 (age 74) Hengelo, Netherlands
Political party	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (from 1973)
Spouse	Gerlof Jorritsma (m. 1971)
Children	2 daughters
Alma mater	Baudartius College (Bachelor of Liberal Arts)
Occupation	Politician · Civil servant · Businesswoman · Corporate director · Nonprofit director

Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink (born 1 June 1950) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businesswoman. She is the Parliamentary leader in the Senate since 24 November 2015 and a Member of the Senate since 9 June 2015.

Life and career

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After graduating from the secondary school Baudartius College in Zutphen in 1967, Jorritsma attended the School for Tourist Training (School voor Toeristische Vorming) in Breda. She also followed a French teacher training course (which she did not complete) and various politically oriented courses.

Jorritsma served on the Municipal Council of Bolsward from 5 September 1978 until 1988. She was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after the election of 1982, serving from 16 September 1982 until 3 June 1986. Jorritsma returned as a Member of the House of Representatives after Wim van Eekelen was appointed Minister of Defence in the Cabinet Lubbers II after the election of 1986, taking office on 30 July 1986 serving as a frontbencher and spokesperson for Spatial Planning. After the election of 1994 Jorritsma was appointed as Minister of Transport and Water Management in the Cabinet Kok I, taking office on 22 August 1994. After the election of 1998 Jorritsma returned as a Member of the House of Representatives, taking office on 19 May 1998. Following the cabinet formation of 1998 Jorritsma was appointment as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs in the Cabinet Kok II, taking office on 3 August 1998. The Cabinet Kok II resigned on 16 April 2002 following the conclusions of the NIOD report into the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War and continued to serve in a demissionary capacity. After the election of 2002 Jorritsma again returned as a Member of the House of Representatives, taking office on 23 May 2002. Following the cabinet formation of 2002 Jorritsma was not giving a cabinet post in the new cabinet, the Cabinet Kok II was replaced by the Cabinet Balkenende I on 22 July 2002 and he continued to serve in the House of Representatives as a frontbencher and spokesperson for Social Affairs and Employment. In October 2002 Jorritsma announced that she wouldn't stand for the election of 2003 and continued to serve until the end of the parliamentary term on 30 January 2003.

Jorritsma remained in active in national politics, in February 2003 she was appointed as acting Mayor of Delfzijl, taking office on 11 February 2003. In August 2003 she was nominated as Mayor of Almere, she resigned as acting Mayor of Delfzijl the same day she was installed as Mayor of Almere, serving from 16 August 2003 until 9 September 2015. Jorritsma also became active in the private sector and public sector and occupied numerous seats as a corporate director and nonprofit director on several boards of directors and supervisory boards (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Equens, Alliander, Association of Participation Companies and Recruit Global Staffing). Jorritsma also served as chairwoman of the executive board of the Association of Municipalities from 1 May 2008 until 3 June 2015. Jorritsma was elected as a Member of the Senate after the Senate election of 2015, taking office on 9 June 2015 serving as a frontbencher and spokesperson for Infrastructure and Water Management. Jorritsma was selected as Parliamentary leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy in the Senate following the resignation of Loek Hermans, taking office on 24 November 2015.

Decorations

Ribbon bar	Honour	Country	Date	Comment
Honours
	Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II	Belgium	10 December 1998
	Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit	Germany	20 October 2000
	Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau	Netherlands	3 June 2015	Promoted from Officer (10 December 2002)

References

(in Dutch) Annemarie Jorritsma (1950) Biografie, Absolutefacts.nl, 19 August 2005
"Annemarie Jorritsma nieuwe fractievoorzitter VVD in Senaat" (in Dutch). Parlement.com. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
"Kamerbreder, radioprogramma NPO 1 Special". Archived from the original on 2021-08-04.
"Scheidend VNG-voorzitter Jorritsma krijgt lintje" (in Dutch). Gemeente.nu. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2019.

External links

Media related to Annemarie Jorritsma at Wikimedia Commons

Official

(in Dutch) A. (Annemarie) Jorritsma-Lebbink Parlement.com
(in Dutch) A. Jorritsma-Lebbink (VVD) Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal

Party political offices
Preceded byHelmi Huijbregts-Schiedon	Parliamentary leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy in the Senate 2015–present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded byKoos Andriessen Ad interim	Minister of Transport and Water Management 1994–1998	Succeeded byTineke Netelenbos
Preceded byHans Dijkstal	Deputy Prime Minister 1998–2002 With: Els Borst	Succeeded byEduard Bomhoff
Preceded byHans van Mierlo	Deputy Prime Minister 1998–2002 With: Els Borst	Succeeded byJohan Remkes
Preceded byHans Wijers	Minister of Economic Affairs 1998–2002	Succeeded byHerman Heinsbroek
Preceded byEd Haaksman	Mayor of Delfzijl Acting 2003	Succeeded byHenk van Hoof Ad interim
Preceded byHans Ouwerkerk Ad interim	Mayor of Almere 2003–2015	Succeeded byFranc Weerwind
Business positions
Preceded byUnknown	Chairwoman of the Supervisory board of Alliander 2016–present	Incumbent
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded byUnknown	Chairwoman of the Executive Board of the Association of Municipalities 2008–2015	Succeeded byJan van Zanen

v t e People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Leaders	Oud Toxopeus Geertsema Wiegel Nijpels De Korte Voorhoeve Bolkestein Dijkstal Zalm Van Aartsen Rutte Yeşilgöz
Chairs	Stikker Oud Van der Pols Van Someren Korthals Altes Kamminga Ginjaar Van Leeuwen-Schut Hoekzema Eenhoorn Van Zanen Opstelten Korthals Keizer Van der Wal Hoes Wetzels
Parliamentary leaders in the Senate	Molenaar Van Riel Van Someren Zoutendijk Luteijn Korthals Altes Ginjaar Van den Broek-Laman Trip Rosenthal De Graaf Hermans Jorritsma Schippers
Parliamentary leaders in the House of Representatives	Oud Toxopeus Geertsema Toxopeus Geertsema Wiegel Rietkerk Wiegel Nijpels Voorhoeve Bolkestein Dijkstal Zalm Van Aartsen Van Beek Rutte Blok Rutte Zijlstra Rutte Zijlstra Dijkhoff Rutte Hermans Yeşilgöz
Party organisations	Youth Organisation Freedom and Democracy Telders Foundation Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party Renew Europe Liberal International
Leadership elections	2006

v t e Deputy prime ministers of the Netherlands
Drees Van Schaik Teulings Beel Struycken Korthals Biesheuvel Vondeling De Quay Witteveen Bakker Nelissen Geertsema Van Agt De Gaay Fortman Wiegel Den Uyl Terlouw Van Aardenne De Korte Kok Dijkstal Van Mierlo Jorritsma Borst Bomhoff Remkes De Boer Zalm De Graaf Brinkhorst Bos Rouvoet Verhagen Asscher De Jonge Ollongren Schouten Koolmees Ollongren Kaag Hoekstra Jetten Van Gennip Agema Hermans Van Hijum Keijzer

v t e Ministers of economic affairs of the Netherlands
Ministry of Economic Affairs
Tak van Poortvliet Klerck Van den Bergh Tromp Bastert Havelaar Lely Van der Sleijden De Marez Oyens Kraus Veegens Talma Treub Posthuma Van IJsselsteyn Ruijs de Beerenbrouck Aalberse Koolen Slotemaker de Bruïne Verschuur Colijn Steenberghe Gelissen Steenberghe Colijn Steenberghe Van den Tempel Kerstens Van den Broek Gispen Vos Huysmans Mansholt Van den Brink Zijlstra De Pous Andriessen Den Uyl Bakker De Block Witteveen Nelissen Langman Lubbers Van Aardenne Terlouw Van Aardenne De Korte Andriessen Wijers Jorritsma Heinsbroek Hoogervorst Brinkhorst Zalm Wijn Van der Hoeven Verhagen Kamp Wiebes Van Nieuwenhuizen Van 't Wout Blok Adriaansens Beljaarts

v t e Ministers of transport and water management of the Netherlands
Ministry of Transport and Water Management
Lely De Marez Oyens Kraus Veegens Kraus Bevers Talma Regout Lely König Van Swaay Bongaerts Van der Vegte Reymer Kalff Colijn Van Lidth de Jeude Van Buuren Van Lidth de Jeude Albarda Wijffels Tromp S. Van Schaik Vos J. Van Schaik Spitzen Wemmers Algera Witte Van Aartsen Korthals Van Aartsen Suurhoff Bogaers Suurhoff De Quay Bakker Drees Jr. Udink Westerterp Tuijnman Zeevalking Kroes Maij-Weggen Andriessen Jorritsma Netelenbos De Boer Peijs Eurlings

v t e Members of the Senate of the Netherlands (2015–2019)
Senate 9 June 2015 – 11 June 2019
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 13)	Jorritsma Broekers-Knol (President) Bruijn Bruijn-Wezeman Duthler <De Grave> <Hermans> Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Klip-Martin Knip <Krikke> Schaap Schouwenaar <Swagerman> Van de Ven Wever
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 12)	Brinkman Atsma Van Bijsterveld Flierman <Hoekstra> Van Kesteren Knapen Lokin-Sassen Martens Oomen Van Rij Rombouts De Vries-Leggedoor
Democrats 66 (D66: 10)	Engels Andriessen Backer (Bredenoord) Comenencia <De Graaf> Pijlman Prast Rinnooy Kan <Schaper> Schnabel Stienen Vink
Party for Freedom (PVV: 9)	Faber Aardema <Van Beek> Dercksen Van Dijk Van Hattem Van Kesteren Kok <Kops> <Markuszower> <Popken> Van der Sluijs Van Strien <Van Weerdenburg>
Socialist Party (SP: 9)	Kox Van Apeldoorn Don <Elzinga> Gerkens Köhler Meijer Overbeek Reuten <Ruers> Wezel
Labour Party (PvdA: 8)	Postema <Barth> <Beuving> Fiers Nooren Schrijver Sent Sini Verheijen <Vreeman> Van Zandbrink
GreenLeft (GL: 4)	Strik Binnema Ganzevoort Lindmeijer <Vos>
Christian Union (CU: 3)	Kuiper Bikker Ester
Party for the Animals (PvdD: 2)	Koffeman Teunissen
Reformed Political Party (SGP: 2)	Schalk Van Dijk
50PLUS (50+: 2)	Nagel Baay-Timmerman <Van Rooijen>
Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1)	Ten Hoeve
Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the President Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member <> signifies a member who prematurely left this Senate See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–2015 See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–2017

v t e Second Kok cabinet (1998–2002)
Preceded by: First Kok cabinet Succeeded by: First Balkenende cabinet
Prime Minister	Wim Kok (General Affairs)
Deputy Prime Ministers	Annemarie Jorritsma (Economic Affairs) Els Borst (Health, Welfare and Sport)
Ministers	Bram Peper (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (1998–2000) Roger van Boxtel (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (Ad interim) Klaas de Vries (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (from 2000) Jozias van Aartsen (Foreign Affairs) Gerrit Zalm (Finance) Benk Korthals (Justice) Frank de Grave (Defence) Klaas de Vries (Social Affairs and Employment) (1998–2000) Willem Vermeend (Social Affairs and Employment) (from 2000) Loek Hermans (Education, Culture and Science) Tineke Netelenbos (Transport and Water Management) Haijo Apotheker (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) (1998–1999) Klaas de Vries (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) (Ad interim) Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) (from 1999) Jan Pronk (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)
Ministers without portfolio	Roger van Boxtel (Integration and Urban Planning) Eveline Herfkens (Development Cooperation)
State Secretaries	Gijs de Vries (Interior and Kingdom Relations) Dick Benschop (Foreign Affairs) Willem Vermeend (Finance) (1998–2000) Wouter Bos (Finance) (from 2000) Job Cohen (Justice) (1998–2001) Ella Kalsbeek (Justice) (from 2001) Gerrit Ybema (Economic Affairs) Henk van Hoof (Defence) Margo Vliegenthart (Health, Welfare and Sport) Hans Hoogervorst (Social Affairs and Employment) Annelies Verstand (Social Affairs and Employment) Karin Adelmund (Education, Culture and Science) Rick van der Ploeg (Education, Culture and Science) Monique de Vries (Transport and Water Management) Geke Faber (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) Johan Remkes (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

v t e First Kok cabinet (1994–1998)
Preceded by: Third Lubbers cabinet Succeeded by: Second Kok cabinet
Prime Minister	Wim Kok (General Affairs)
Deputy Prime Ministers	Hans Dijkstal (Interior) Hans van Mierlo (Foreign Affairs)
Ministers	Gerrit Zalm (Finance) (1994–1996) Hans Wijers (Finance) (Ad interim) Gerrit Zalm (Finance) (1996–1998) Winnie Sorgdrager (Justice) Hans Wijers (Economic Affairs) Joris Voorhoeve (Defence) Els Borst (Health, Welfare and Sport) Ad Melkert (Social Affairs and Employment) Jo Ritzen (Education, Culture and Science) Annemarie Jorritsma (Transport and Water Management) Jozias van Aartsen (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) Margreeth de Boer (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)
Minister without portfolios	Joris Voorhoeve (Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Affairs) Jan Pronk (Development Cooperation)
State Secretaries	Tonny van de Vondervoort (Interior) Jacob Kohnstamm (Interior) Michiel Patijn (Foreign Affairs) Willem Vermeend (Finance) Elizabeth Schmitz (Justice) Anneke van Dok-van Weele (Economic Affairs) Jan Gmelich Meijling (Defence) Erica Terpstra (Health, Welfare and Sport) Robin Linschoten (Social Affairs and Employment) (1994–1996) Frank de Grave (Social Affairs and Employment) (from 1996) Tineke Netelenbos (Education, Culture and Science) Aad Nuis (Education, Culture and Science) Monique de Vries (Transport and Water Management) Dick Tommel (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

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