Post on 08-Feb-2021
Halimah’s journey
PHOTOS: THE STRAITS TIMES, LIANHE ZAOBAO, BERITA HARIAN, BUSINESS TIMES STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS
Madam Halimah Yacob is set to be Singapore’s �rst female president. Here is a timeline of her career
Aug
28 1962
Born in her family home in Queen Street, the youngest of five children.
Her father dies. As a child, she helps her mother, who sells nasi padang from a pushcart plying Shenton Way before getting a hawker stall licence.
Aug
28
Attends Singapore Chinese Girls’ School; one of the few Malay pupils there.
1960s
Aug
28 1970s
Goes to Tanjong Katong Girls’ School and the University of Singapore where she graduates with a law degree.
Aug
28
Marries her university sweetheart Mohamed Abdullah Alhabshee, a businessman. They have five children.
Aug
28 1978
Joins the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) as a legal officer. She spends more than 30 years there, eventually becoming deputy secretary-general.
Aug
28Aug
28
Becomes Minister of State at the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports.
Aug
28
Appointed Singapore’s first female Speaker of Parliament.
Aug 23 Late
1980June
2001 2011 20131954
Enters politics at the urging of then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, and goes on to contest and win in four general elections. She was most recently an MP for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC.