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Judith Anne Collins (born 24 February 1959) is a New Zealand politician and lawyer. Born in Hamilton and residing in Auckland, she graduated in law and taxation and worked in this field from 1981 until 2002, including running her own practice for a decade. She entered Parliament in the as an electorate MP for the centre-right New Zealand National Party and became a Cabinet minister when National came into government in 2008. Her initial ministerial portfolios were Police, Corrections and Veterans' Affairs. After the , her portfolios changed to Justice (including responsibility for the Law Commission), Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and Ethnic Affairs. With a fifth-placed ranking, she was the highest ranked woman in the Cabinet. She resigned from Cabinet on 30 August 2014 following email leaks alleging she had undermined the head of the Serious Fraud Office when she was the Minister responsible for that organisation. ==Early life and career== Collins was born in Hamilton. Her parents were dairy farmers Percy and Jessie Collins of Walton in the Waikato and she was the youngest of six children attending Walton Primary School. In 1977 and 1978 she studied at the University of Canterbury. In 1979 she switched to the University of Auckland, and obtained first an LLB and then a LLM (Hons) and later a Master of Taxation Studies (MTaxS). She met her husband, part-Samoan David Wong Tung, at university. He was then a police officer and had migrated from Samoa as a child. They have one son.〔 Early in her married life, she and her husband briefly owned a restaurant, Dr Dudding's Restaurant at Hauraki Corner, Takapuna. She initially supported the Labour Party, but joined the National Party in 1999.〔 Collins was previously a member of Zonta International and of Rotary International.
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