Leena Luhtanen | |
Office: | Minister of Justice |
Primeminister: | Matti Vanhanen |
Term Start: | 23 September 2005 |
Term End: | 19 April 2007 |
Predecessor: | Johannes Koskinen |
Successor: | Tuija Brax |
Office2: | Minister of Transport and Communications |
Primeminister2: | Anneli Jäätteenmäki Matti Vanhanen |
Term Start2: | 17 April 2003 |
Term End2: | 22 September 2005 |
Predecessor2: | Kimmo Sasi |
Successor2: | Susanna Huovinen |
Birth Date: | 12 February 1941 |
Birth Place: | Kuopio, Finland |
Party: | Social Democratic Party |
Spouse: | Oiva Luhtanen |
Leena Luhtanen (née Nikulainen; born 12 February 1941) is a Finnish politician and a former member of the cabinet. Luhtanen is a member of the Social Democratic Party, and served in the parliament from 1991 until 2007.[1]
She served as the minister of transport and communications in Matti Vanhanen's first cabinet from 2003 to 2005, and thereafter as the minister of justice until the parliamentary elections of 2007.[2] She was not re-elected.
Luhtanen was born in Kuopio, and has been a member of Espoo city council since 1985.