Mireille Ndiaye

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Mireille Ndiaye (born Mireille Brenner ; born January 17, 1939 in Lomé , French Togoland ; † March 22, 2015 in Lomé, Togo ) was a Senegalese administrative lawyer .

family

Brenner was born in 1939 as the daughter of Carl Marcellin Brenner and Louise von Doering (1908–1983), who were both of German and Togolese descent. Her maternal grandfather Hans Georg von Doering (1866–1921) was the deputy governor of the German colony of Togo . Her brother Yves Brenner was friends with Abdou Diouf , who became President of Senegal in 1981 , while studying .

Mireille Ndiaye was married to Fara Ndiaye (1935-1995), a politician of the Senegalese Democratic Party , who also sat in the Senegalese National Assembly .

Mireille's daughter Sibeth Ndiaye (* 1979) got involved in politics alongside Emmanuel Macron in France and was appointed government spokeswoman and state secretary to the Prime Minister on March 31, 2019 .

Career

After graduating from the University of Paris with a law degree , Ndiaye first became Assistant Judge at the Lower Court of Dakar and then Attorney General at the Senegalese Supreme Court. After that, she was simultaneously chairman of the criminal chamber of the court of cassation and court inspector.

Ndiaye sat on the Senegalese Constitutional Council from 2003 and was its chairman from 2004 until her retirement in April 2010. She was succeeded in this position by Cheikh Tidiane Diakhaté .

Mireille Ndiaye died on March 22, 2015 in the Togolese capital Lomé and was buried in the Bel-Air Catholic cemetery in Dakar.

She was awarded the Ordre national du Lion .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Candice Nedelec: Parce qu'elles viennent de loin . Fayard, 2019, ISBN 2-213-71137-2 (French).
  2. ↑ Sibeth Ndiaye. French Government , accessed April 1, 2019 (French).
  3. ^ Sénégal: Conseil constitutionnel: une femme à la barre. In: AllAfrica. December 18, 2002, accessed May 1, 2020 (French).
  4. ^ Décès de Mireille Ndiaye, ancienne présidente du Conseil constitutionnel. In: Seneweb News. March 23, 2015, accessed May 1, 2020 (French).
  5. ^ Cheikh Tidiane Diakhaté remplace Mme Mireille NDiaye à la tête du Conseil constitutionnel. In: Leral.net. August 14, 2010, accessed May 1, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Ndiaye, Mireille
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brenner, Mireille (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Lomé , French Togoland
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2015
Place of death Lomé, Togo