Career
Zypries studied law at the University of Giessen from 1972 to 1977, and took her first legal state exam in 1978. Then followed in-service training in the regional court district of Gießen, and in 1980 the second state exam. Until 1985 she worked at the University of Giessen.
- 1985–1988: Assistant Head of Division at State Chancellery of Hesse.
- 1988–1990: Member of academic staff at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
- 1991: Head of Division of the State Chancellery of Lower Saxony.
- 1995–1997: Head of Department of the State Chancellery of Lower Saxony.
- to 1998: Active in the Ministry for Women, Labour and Social Affairs of Lower Saxony.
- 1998–2002: State Secretary.
- November 1998 to October 2002: Active in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. From September 1999 Chair of the State Secretary Committee for the management of the Federal Government programme "Modern State — Modern Administration".
- 23 October 2002 – 27 October 2009: Federal Minister of Justice.
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