Adeline Hazan

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Adeline HAZAN, Magistrate, was a sentencing judge at the Châlons-sur-Marne High Court from 1980 to 1983, then a juvenile court judge in the Paris region until 1990. She was President of the Judges’ Union 1986 to 1989. After being a project manager at the General Secretariat for Integration in 1990 and 1991, then head of the delinquency prevention sector at the Interministerial Delegation for Urban Affairs from 1991 to 1995, she once again became a juvenile court judge at the Paris High Court. In June 1997, she was appointed adviser to the Minister for Employment and Solidarity, Martine Aubry, with responsibility for urban policy and integration until 1999. An MEP from 1999 to 2008, Adeline Hazan ended her mandate as a Member of the European Parliament following her election as mayor of Reims on 21 March 2008. She was mayor of Reims until 4 April 2014, then city councillor and councillor for the Reims conurbation. She resigned from these last two posts following her appointment as Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty. Adeline Hazan was National Secretary of the Socialist Party, responsible for social issues from 1995 to 2003, then National Secretary responsible for women's rights until 2014. She left the leadership of the Socialist Party in July 2014 to devote herself to her mission as Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty. Her term of office ended on 17 July 2020. She joined the UNICEF France Board of Directors in 2020 and has been its Chairwoman since June 2022.