Judith Collins
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The Honourable Judith Collins MP |
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| 5th Minister of Revenue | |
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Assumed office 20 December 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Bill English |
| Preceded by | Michael Woodhouse |
| Minister of Energy and Resources | |
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Assumed office 20 December 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Bill English |
| Preceded by | Simon Bridges |
| Minister for Ethnic Communities | |
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Assumed office 20 December 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Bill English |
| Preceded by | Sam Lotu-liga |
| Minister of Police | |
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In office 19 November 2008 – 12 December 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | John Key |
| Preceded by | Annette King |
| Succeeded by | Anne Tolley |
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In office 14 December 2015 – 20 December 2016 |
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| Prime Minister |
John Key Bill English |
| Preceded by | Michael Woodhouse |
| Succeeded by | Paula Bennett |
| Minister of Corrections | |
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In office 19 November 2008 – 12 December 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | John Key |
| Preceded by | Phil Goff |
| Succeeded by | Anne Tolley |
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In office 14 December 2015 – 20 December 2016 |
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| Prime Minister |
John Key Bill English |
| Preceded by | Sam Lotu-Iiga |
| Succeeded by | Louise Upston |
| 47th Minister of Justice | |
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In office 12 December 2011 – 30 August 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | John Key |
| Preceded by | Simon Power |
| Succeeded by | Amy Adams |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Papakura |
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Assumed office 8 November 2008 |
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| Preceded by | John Robertson (1996) |
| Majority | 10,277 (32.6%) |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Clevedon |
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In office 27 July 2002 – 8 November 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Warren Kyd (1996) |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Majority | 12,871 (34.9%) |
| Personal details | |
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Judith Anne Collins 24 February 1959 Hamilton, New Zealand |
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| Spouse(s) | David Wong Tung |
| Children | James |
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Judith Anne Collins (born 24 February 1959) is a New Zealand politician and lawyer, and is currently Minister of Revenue, Minister of Energy and Resources, and Minister for Ethnic Communities. Born in Hamilton and as of 2015[update] residing in Auckland, she graduated in law and taxation and worked in this field from 1981 until 2002, including running her own practice for a decade. She entered Parliament in the 2002 election as an electorate MP for the centre-right New Zealand National Party and became a Cabinet minister when National came into government in 2008. Her initial ministerial portfolios were Police, Corrections and Veterans' Affairs. After the 2011 election, her portfolios changed to Justice (including responsibility for the Law Commission), Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and Ethnic Affairs. With a fifth-placed ranking, she was the highest ranked woman in the Cabinet. She resigned from Cabinet on 30 August 2014 following e-mail leaks alleging she had undermined the head of the Serious Fraud Office when she was the Minister responsible for that organisation; she was later cleared of any wrongdoing.
Collins was born in Hamilton. Her parents were dairy farmers Percy and Jessie Collins of Walton in the Waikato and she was the youngest of six children attending Walton Primary School. In 1977 and 1978 she studied at the University of Canterbury. In 1979 she switched to the University of Auckland, and obtained first an LLB and then a LLM (Hons) and later a Master of Taxation Studies (MTaxS). She met her husband, part-Samoan David Wong Tung, at university. He was then a police officer and had migrated from Samoa as a child. They have one son.
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