Catherine Picard | |
Office: | Member of the National Assembly for Eure's 5th constituency |
Term Start: | 12 June 1997 |
Term End: | 19 June 2002 |
Predecessor: | Jean-Claude Asphe |
Successor: | Franck Gilard |
Birth Date: | 14 August 1952 |
Birth Place: | La Garenne-Colombes, France |
Party: | Socialist Party |
Catherine Picard (born 14 August 1952) is a French politician and anti-cultist from the French Socialist Party. She was a member of the French National Assembly from 1997 to 2002.
Picard was elected on 1 June 1997 for the French Socialist Party and was responsible for public education. In 2001, together with centrist Senator Nicolas About, she drafted the About-Picard law.[1]
In 2007, Picard was found guilty of slander against the Jehovah's Witnesses. In 2009, she became a Knight of the Legion of Honour.[2]