Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2011 | |
President of Switzerland | |
In office 1 January 2012 – 31 December 2012 | |
Vice President | Ueli Maurer |
Preceded by | Micheline Calmy-Rey |
Succeeded by | Ueli Maurer |
Vice President of Switzerland | |
In office 1 January 2011 – 31 December 2011 | |
President | Micheline Calmy-Rey |
Preceded by | Micheline Calmy-Rey |
Succeeded by | Ueli Maurer |
Head of the Department of Finance | |
In office 1 November 2010 – 31 December 2015 | |
Preceded by | Hans-Rudolf Merz |
Succeeded by | Ueli Maurer |
Head of the Department of Justice and Police | |
In office 1 January 2008 – 31 October 2010 | |
Preceded by | Christoph Blocher |
Succeeded by | Simonetta Sommaruga |
Member of the Swiss Federal Council | |
In office 1 January 2008 – 31 December 2015 | |
Preceded by | Christoph Blocher |
Succeeded by | Guy Parmelin |
Personal details | |
Born | Felsberg, Switzerland | 16 March 1956
Political party | Swiss People's Party (before 2008) Conservative Democratic Party (2008–2021) The Centre (2021–present) |
Spouse | Christoph Widmer[1] |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater | University of Zürich |
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (born 16 March 1956) is a Swiss politician and lawyer who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2008 to 2015. A member of the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) until 2008, she was then a member of the splinter Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD) until 2021, when that party merged into The Centre. Widmer-Schlumpf was the head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police from 2008 to 2010, when she became head of the Federal Department of Finance.[2] She served as President of the Swiss Confederation in 2012.