Anna-Liisa Korpinen

Political career Tiekso dropped out of university when she was elected to the Parliament of Finland in 1951, representing the constituency of Lapland as a member of the Finnish People's Democratic League. Tiekso was also a part of the Finnish delegation to the Nordic council, and a presidential elector in the 1956, 1962, and 1968 elections. She was the only woman to hold a position in Koivisto's first cabinet, and was reappointed as Minister of Social Affairs and Health by prime minister Ahti Karjalainen in 1970. As minister, she introduced legislation to provide pensions to widows and self-employed workers.

Later life and death Tiekso resigned from Parliament in 1974 to become the assistant director of occupational safety and health at the manufacturing company Rautaruukki. She married , a member of Parliament, in 1975 and moved to Oulu, where she continued working at Rautaruukki. She retired from her career in 1982, and headed , the national pensioners' organization in Finland, from 1984 to 1994. She died on 20 September 2010 in Kemi, at the age of 81.