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Margaret Ritchie
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
Margaret Ritchie
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

Margaret Ritchie

Irish, 1958
Place ActiveDownpatrick, Northern Ireland
Margaret Ritchie is an Irish politician who served as the Leader of the Social Democratic Labour Party for Northern Ireland from February 2010 until November 2011. From May 2007 until February 2010 Ritchie served as Northern Ireland's Minister for Social Development. Ritchie has also been a member of the Parliament for the United Kingdom and a member of the Northern Irish Legislative Assembly.