An outstanding and learned professor of Law has been elected as the first ever female president of Taiwan.
Tsai Ing-wen has become the first woman to be elected as President of Taiwan
Tsai Ing-wen has become the first woman to be elected as President of Taiwan. She has been sworn in as the new president of Taiwan. Tsai is a graduate and professor of Law.
Tsai's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won parliamentary and presidential elections by a landslide in January on a voter backlash against creeping dependence on China.
According to Wikipedia, she is the first unmarried president; the first to have never held an elected post before presidency; and the first to be popularly elected without having previously served as the Mayor of Taipei.
She is the incumbent chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and was the party's presidential candidate in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections.
Tsai previously served as party chair from 2008 to 2012.