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title: "Who has been elected as the first female president of the European Commission?"  
description: "Who has been elected as the first female president of the European Commission?"  
author: "Rahul Roi"  
published: 2019-07-22  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/62212/who-has-been-elected-as-the-first-female-president-of-the-european-commission  
category: "current affair"  
tags: ["current affair", "european union"]  
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#  Who has been elected as the first female president of the European Commission?

Who has been elected [as the first female](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/62164/zuzana-captiva-was-sworn-in-as-the-first-female-president-of-which-country) president of the [European](https://www.mindstick.com/news/3156/eu-seals-new-us-data-transfer-pact-but-challenge-likely) [Commission](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/167919/5-things-kids-should-know-about-finances)?

## Answers

### Answer by Adriana Michele

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In July 2019, the European Council nominated [**Ursula von der Leyen**](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen) to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker and was elected the 13th Chairman of the European Commission by the European Parliament on 16 July. Ursula Gertrude von der Leyen (born: October 1958) is a German politician who served as Minister of Defense from 2013 to 2019. Born and raised in Brussels, she is a physician by profession. She is the only minister to have served Angela Merkel's cabinet continuously since she took office in 2005.\

She was married to Heiko von der Leyen, a professor of medicine, CEO of a medical engineering company and member of the von der Leyen family, an aristocratic family known as a silk industrialist. They met a university Göttingen. They have seven children, David (1987), Sophie (1989), Donata (1992), twins Victoria and Johanna (1994), Egmont (1998), and Gracia (1999). The von der Leyen family is a Lutheran member of the Evangelical Church of Germany.

On 2 July 2019, von der Leyen was proposed by the European Council as a candidate for President of the European Commission. She was then elected by the European Parliament on 16 July. She took office on 1 December, becoming the first woman to become President of the European Commission.


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