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...challenged early on. In 1986, Mitterrand named her to the Conseil d'Etat - a governmental policy advisory panel - and in 1988 she was tapped as chief of staff of the then leftist government's Justice Ministry. In 1992 she became the first woman ever appointed to the Conseil Constitutionel - France's equivalent to a supreme court - where she acted as that body's leading ethicist. When her term as justice expired in 2001, she continued advising the E.U. and was putting together a private legal practice specializing in bioethics issues when she received the call from Raffarin. Given the friction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madame La Ministre | 6/23/2002 | See Source »

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