Ankie Broekers-Knol

Dutch politician (born 1946)

Ankie Broekers-Knol
Broekers-Knol in 2014

State Secretary for Justice and Security
In office 11 June 2019 – 10 January 2022
Prime Minister	Mark Rutte
Preceded by	Mark Harbers
Succeeded by	Eric van der Burg
President of the Senate
In office 2 July 2013 – 11 June 2019
Preceded by	Fred de Graaf
Succeeded by	Jan Anthonie Bruijn
Member of the Senate
In office 2 October 2001 – 11 June 2019

Personal details
Born	Anneke Knol (1946-11-23) 23 November 1946 (age 77) Leiden, Netherlands
Political party	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (from 1969)
Spouse	Arnoud Cornelis Broekers (m. 1971)
Children	2 daughters
Residence(s)	Overveen, Netherlands
Alma mater	Leiden University (Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws)
Occupation	Politician · Jurist · Researcher · Legal educator · Academic administrator
Website	State Secretary for Security and Justice

Anneke "Ankie" Broekers-Knol (born 23 November 1946) is a Dutch politician and jurist who served as State Secretary for Justice and Security in the Third Rutte cabinet from 11 June 2019 until 10 January 2022. She is a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).^[1]

She previously served as a member of the Senate from 2 October 2001 until 11 June 2019 and as President of the Senate from 2 July 2013 to 11 June 2019. Broekers-Knol was chair of the Senate's standing committee for Security and Justice.^[2] She used to be director of the Department of Moot Court and Advocacy at Leiden University. She started her political career as a municipal councillor of Bloemendaal (1986–1997) and became acting mayor of Bloemendaal on 1 October 2023.^[3]

Electoral history

A (possibly incomplete) overview of Dutch elections Broekers-Knol participated in
Election	Party	Candidate number	Votes
1990 Dutch municipal elections in Bloemendaal	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	4	195
2011 Dutch Senate election	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
2015 Dutch Senate election	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	2
2018 Dutch municipal elections in Bloemendaal	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	19

Decorations

National

Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau (4 June 2019)

Foreign

Austria: Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash of the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (17 May 2018)
Italy: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Italy (10 May 2017)^[4]

References

^ (in Dutch) "Oud-Eerste Kamervoorzitter Broekers-Knol wordt staatssecretaris Justitie". NOS. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
^ (in Dutch) Broekers voorzitter Eerste Kamer, NOS, 2 July 2013
^ "Mr. A. (Ankie) Broekers-Knol". PARLEMENT.com (in Dutch). 3 February 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
^ "Broekers-Knol Pres. Ankie". Presidenza dellaRepubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 3 February 2024.

External links

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Official

(in Dutch) Mr. A. (Ankie) Broekers-Knol Parlement & Politiek
(in Dutch) Mr. A. Broekers-Knol (VVD) Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal

Political offices
Preceded by Fred de Graaf	President of the Senate 2013–2019	Succeeded by Jan Anthonie Bruijn
Preceded by Mark Harbers	State Secretary for Justice and Security 2019–present	Incumbent

State Secretaries for Justice of the Netherlands

Ministry of Justice and Security

v t e Presidents of the Senate of the Netherlands
Senate of the Netherlands
J. A. G de Vos van Steenwijk II Van Eysinga W. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye Van Naamen van Eemnes J. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye Van Voorst tot Voorst W. L. de Vos van Steenwijk Kranenburg Jonkman Mazure De Niet Gerritzoon Thurlings Steenkamp Tjeenk Willink Korthals Altes Braks Timmerman-Buck Van der Linden De Graaf Broekers-Knol Bruijn

v t e Members of the Senate of the Netherlands (2015–2019)
Senate 9 June 2015 – 11 June 2019
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 13)	Jorritsma Broekers-Knol (President) Bruijn Bruijn-Wezeman Duthler <De Grave> <Hermans> Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Klip-Martin Knip <Krikke> Schaap Schouwenaar <Swagerman> Van de Ven Wever
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 12)	Brinkman Atsma Van Bijsterveld Flierman <Hoekstra> Van Kesteren Knapen Lokin-Sassen Martens Oomen Van Rij Rombouts De Vries-Leggedoor
Democrats 66 (D66: 10)	Engels Andriessen Backer (Bredenoord) Comenencia <De Graaf> Pijlman Prast Rinnooy Kan <Schaper> Schnabel Stienen Vink
Party for Freedom (PVV: 9)	Faber Aardema <Van Beek> Dercksen Van Dijk Van Hattem Van Kesteren Kok <Kops> <Markuszower> <Popken> Van der Sluijs Van Strien <Van Weerdenburg>
Socialist Party (SP: 9)	Kox Van Apeldoorn Don <Elzinga> Gerkens Köhler Meijer Overbeek Reuten <Ruers> Wezel
Labour Party (PvdA: 8)	Postema <Barth> <Beuving> Fiers Nooren Schrijver Sent Sini Verheijen <Vreeman> Van Zandbrink
GreenLeft (GL: 4)	Strik Binnema Ganzevoort Lindmeijer <Vos>
Christian Union (CU: 3)	Kuiper Bikker Ester
Party for the Animals (PvdD: 2)	Koffeman Teunissen
Reformed Political Party (SGP: 2)	Schalk Van Dijk
50PLUS (50+: 2)	Nagel Baay-Timmerman <Van Rooijen>
Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1)	Ten Hoeve
Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the President Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member <> signifies a member who prematurely left this Senate See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–2015 See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–2017

v t e Members of the Senate of the Netherlands (2011–2015)
Senate, 7 June 2011 - 8 June 2015
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 16)	Hermans Beckers Bröcker Broekers-Knol (President) Bruijn Dupuis Duthler De Graaf De Grave Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Kneppers-Heynert Knip <Van Rey> Schaap Schouwenaar Swagerman
Labour Party (PvdA: 14)	Barth Beuving Duivesteijn Ter Horst Koning Koole Linthorst <Meurs> <Noten> Postema <Putters> Schrijver Sent Sylvester Vlietstra De Vries <Witteveen> Van Zandbrink
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 11)	Brinkman Van Bijsterveld Essers Flierman Franken Hoekstra Van der Linden Lokin-Sassen Martens Terpstra De Vries-Leggedoor
Party for Freedom (PVV: 10)	Faber Van Beek Van Dijk Frijters-Klijnen <De Graaf> <De Graaff> <Klever> Kok Kops Popken Reynaers Sørensen Van Strien
Socialist Party (SP: 8)	Kox Elzinga Gerkens Meijer Quik-Schuijt Reuten Ruers Slagter-Roukema <Smaling> <Vliegenthart>
Democrats 66 (D66: 5)	Van Boxtel Backer Engels De Graaf Scholten
GreenLeft (GL: 5)	Thissen De Boer Ganzevoort Strik Vos
Christian Union (CU: 2)	Kuiper Ester
Reformed Political Party (SGP: 1)	Holdijk
50PLUS (50+: 1)	Nagel
Party for the Animals (PvdD: 1)	Koffeman
Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1)	De Lange
Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the President Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member <> signifies a member who prematurely left this Senate See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2015–present See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–present See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2010–2012

Third Rutte cabinet (2017–2022)

Ministers
General Affairs	Mark Rutte (2017–2022; Prime Minister)
Interior and Kingdom Relations	Kajsa Ollongren (2017–2019; Deputy Prime Minister) Raymond Knops (2019–2020 ad interim) Kajsa Ollongren (2020–2022; Deputy Prime Minister)
Foreign Affairs	Halbe Zijlstra (2017–2018) Sigrid Kaag (2018 ad interim) Stef Blok (2018–2021) Sigrid Kaag (2021) Tom de Bruijn (2021 ad interim) Ben Knapen (2021–2022)
Finance	Wopke Hoekstra (2017–2022)
Justice and Security	Ferdinand Grapperhaus (2017–2022)
Economic Affairs and Climate Policy	Eric Wiebes (2017–2021) Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (2021 ad interim) Bas van 't Wout (2021) Stef Blok (2021–2022)
Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality	Carola Schouten (2017–2022; Deputy Prime Minister)
Defence	Ank Bijleveld (2017–2021) Ferdinand Grapperhaus (2021 ad interim) Henk Kamp (2021–2022)
Health, Welfare and Sport	Hugo de Jonge (2017–2022; Deputy Prime Minister)
Education, Culture and Science	Ingrid van Engelshoven (2017–2022)
Infrastructure and Water Management	Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (2017–2021) Barbara Visser (2021–2022)
Social Affairs and Employment	Wouter Koolmees (2017–2022; Deputy Prime Minister 2019–2020 ad interim)

Ministers without portfolio
Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation	Sigrid Kaag (2017–2021) Tom de Bruijn (2021–2022)
Legal Protection	Sander Dekker (2017–2022)
Medical Care	Bruno Bruins (2017–2020) Martin van Rijn (2020) Tamara van Ark (2020–2021)
Primary and Secondary Education and Media	Arie Slob (2017–2022)
Environment and Housing	Stientje van Veldhoven (2019–2020)

State Secretaries
Interior and Kingdom Relations	Raymond Knops (2017–2022)
Finance	Menno Snel (2017–2019) Hans Vijlbrief (2020–2022) Alexandra van Huffelen (2020–2022)
Justice and Security	Mark Harbers (2017–2019) Ankie Broekers-Knol (2019–2022)
Economic Affairs and Climate Policy	Mona Keijzer (2017–2021) Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius (2021–2022)
Defence	Barbara Visser (2017–2021)
Health, Welfare and Sport	Paul Blokhuis (2017–2022)
Infrastructure and Water Management	Stientje van Veldhoven (2017–2019; 2020–2021) Steven van Weyenberg (2021–2022)
Social Affairs and Employment	Tamara van Ark (2017–2020) Bas van 't Wout (2020–2021) Dennis Wiersma (2021–2022)