Career
She serves as Minister of the Reform of the State and of Decentralisation under Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. She served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin from 1997 to 2002. From 2000 to 2002, she served as Minister of Justice.
On 16 May 2012, she was named Minister of the Reform of the State and of Decentralization in the first Cabinet of French President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and Manuel Valls.