Background
Lee, Ellen L. was born on April 4, 1957 in Washington, District of Columbia.
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Lee, Ellen L. was born on April 4, 1957 in Washington, District of Columbia.
Montgomery College; University of Maryland (Bachelor of Arts, 1979). Vermont Law School; Washington College of Law, American University (Juris Doctor, 1985).
She also holds a job at Singaporean law firm Ramdas and Wong. She replaces Chinese Tet Yung in 2006 and is now being replaced by Amrin Amin in 2015. After completing her General Certificate of Education Advanced Level examinations, Lee went on to study at the National University of Singapore, graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Laws degree.
Lee began her professional law career at law firm Messrs Lim Kiap Khee & Company, starting out as a legal assistant in January 1981.
Rising up the ranks, she was promoted to Sole Proprietor in October 1984. Lee left Messrs in September 2005.
Since October 2005, she has been working at Ramdas & Wong as a law consultant, her area of expertise being, among others, family law, adoption and custody of children, bankruptcy and insolvency law, corporate and commercial law, conveyancing and property law, and immigration law. Lee enjoyed a decade"s stint as chairperson of the Singapore Law Society"s Family Law Practice Committee.
She has held this position since May 2006.
She has also been appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Singapore-Turkey parliamentary Friendship Group and the Government Parliamentary Committee for the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A member of the Singapore-based People"s Action Party (PAP), she is a former Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the Sembawang Group Representation Constituency in Woodlands, or GRC in short. A member of the Singapore-based People"s Action Party, Lee serves as an Member of Parliament for the Sembawang GRC.