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Michelle McIlveen
Profile
Michelle McIlveen is a Northern Irish politician who has served as the Deputy Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) since 2025. A member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Strangford since 2007, she has held several ministerial positions, including Minister for Education from 2021 to 2022, Minister of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs, and Minister for Regional Development. Before entering full-time politics, she worked as a teacher and in her family's business. She is recognized for her unionist political stance and her focus on education and regional development policy.
Details
- Born
- 1971-01-21 · 55 years old
- Birth place
- Newtownards, Northern Ireland
- Education
- Methodist College Belfast; Queen's University, Belfast
- Career
- History and Politics teacher at Grosvenor Grammar School; employee at a car dealership
