Esmé Wiegman-van Meppelen Scheppink

Infobox_Politician


name = Esmé Wiegman-van Meppelen Scheppink
birth_date = birth date|1975|7|24|mf=y
birth_place = Haarlem
residence = Zwolle
party = ChristianUnion
religion = Protestant Church in the Netherlands
occupation = Married
children = Three children
website = http://www.esmewiegman.nl/

Emma Eleonora (Esmé) Wiegman-van Meppelen Scheppink (born July 24, 1975 in Haarlem) is a member of Dutch Parliament for the ChristianUnion.

Wiegman studied Dutch language and political scienes at the University of Leiden. After finishing her study she combined the motherhood of three children with a job as an editor for publishers and magazine.

Wiegman-van Meppelen Scheppink became a member of the youth organisation of the Reformatory Political Federation (RPF) in 1989 and was even chairman for a short period of time. Later on she became a boardmember of the RPF and was in 2002 elected as a representative for the ChristianUnion (this party was founded in 2002 as a fusion between the RPF and the GPV in the local counsil of her hometown Zwolle.

In 2007 she was nominated for the seventh place for the coming elections for the Dutch Parliament. The party doubled her number of seats from three to six, but after the party became a member of the newly-formed fourth Balkenende cabinet. André Rouvoet and Tineke Huizinga, both members of the Dutch Parliament for the ChristianUnion, became respictively minister of Youth and Family and Secretary of state for Transportation and Water Management. Through this it was possible for Wiegman-van Meppelen Scheppink to become a member of the Parliament in march 2007.

Wiegman is a member of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.