Sam Tanson

Samantha Tanson (born 4 April 1977) is a Luxembourgish lawyer and politician. She was the Minister of Culture from December 2018 to November 2023 and the Minister of Justice from September 2019 to November 2023. She was also the Minister of Housing between December 2018 and October 2019.

Biography Tanson studied at Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris and completed her studies with a master's degree in law and a diploma from Sciences Po Paris.

On 7 June 2015, she was appointed to the Council of State as a replacement for Agnès Rausch. However, she resigned from that position in order to replace her party colleague Claude Adam in the Chamber of Deputies. She was re-elected as a deputy in the October 2018 general election. Nonetheless, she resigned from her seat to take office as the Minister of Housing and the Minister of Culture within the Second Bettel–Schneider Ministry on 5 December 2018.

Tanson meeting in 2023 with U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg Tom Barrett On 6 September 2019, Tanson became the interim Minister of Justice as a replacement for Félix Braz, who suffered from severe illness. She was appointed as the titular Minister of Justice on 25 September 2019.

She was the Greens' national lead candidate in the 2023 general election, in which the party suffered a considerable loss in vote share, going from nine seats in the Chamber of Deputies to four. With the formation of the CSV-DP coalition government led by Luc Frieden, the Greens went into the opposition, with Tanson returning to the Chamber as a deputy.