Career
Since 2007, she has served as Senator of Finance and Mayor of the city-state of Bremen. She"s one of two people holding the title Mayor, the other being Jens Böhrnsen, the President of the Senate of Bremen. Linnert studied psychology, graduating in 1988.
She served as chair of the Public Expenditures Committee from 2003 to 2007.
Her party ented a coalition with the social democrats in 2007, and she became Senator of Finance and Mayor (co-mayor).