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{{Short description|Taiwanese politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Yu Mei-nu
| native_name         = {{nobold|尤美女}}
| native_name_lang    = zh-tw
| honorific-suffix    = [[List of members of the Legislative Yuan|MLY]]
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| smallimage          = Yu Mei-nu.jpg
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| constituency        = [[At-large|National at-large]]
| order               = Member of the [[Legislative Yuan]]
| term_start          = 1 February 2012
| term_end            = 1 January 2020
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| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1955|1|28}}
| birth_place         = [[Changhua|Changhua City]], [[Changhua County]], [[Taiwan]]
| party               = [[Democratic Progressive Party]]
| spouse              = Remington Huang
| nationality         = Taiwanese
| education           = [[National Taiwan University]] ([[LL.B.|LLB]], [[LL.M.|LLM]])<br />[[Goethe University Frankfurt]] ([[PhD]])
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'''Yu Mei-nu''' ({{zh|c=尤美女|p=Yóu Měinǚ}}; born 28 January 1955) is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the [[Democratic Progressive Party]], she served in the [[Legislative Yuan]] from 2012 to 2020.
== Education and early career ==
Yu obtained her bachelor's and master's degree in law from [[National Taiwan University]]. She pursued doctoral legal studies at the [[Goethe University Frankfurt|University of Frankfurt]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Yu Mei-nu (9) |url=https://www.ly.gov.tw/EngPages/List.aspx?nodeid=12074 |access-date=6 May 2020 |agency=Legislative Yuan}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Yu Mei-nu (8) |url=https://www.ly.gov.tw/EngPages/List.aspx?nodeid=11951 |access-date=6 May 2020 |agency=Legislative Yuan}}</ref> Yu subsequently worked as a lawyer.<ref>{{cite news |title=尤美女 |url=https://election.ltn.com.tw/2016/legislator/candidate/850/302 |access-date=27 December 2022 |work=Liberty Times |date=2016 |language=zh}}</ref>
==Political career==
==Personal life==
Yu is married to Remington Huang.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Chen|first1=Wei-han|title=Grand justice nominee promises judicial reform|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/10/20/2003657541|access-date=20 October 2016|work=Taipei Times|date=20 October 2016}}</ref>
==Honors and recognition==
In 2020 she was conferred the [[Ordre national du Mérite]] on behalf of the French President.<ref>{{cite web |first1=Yun-yu |last1=Chen |last2=Lim |first2=Emerson |title=Former legislator Yu Mei-nu conferred National Order of Merit by France |date=9 July 2020 |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202007090024 |agency=Central News Agency |access-date=9 July 2020}}</ref>
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[[Category:1955 births]]
[[Category:Politicians of the Republic of China on Taiwan from Changhua County]]
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[[Category:Members of the 8th Legislative Yuan]]
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[[Category:Members of the 9th Legislative Yuan]]
[[Category:National Taiwan University alumni]]
[[Category:Taiwanese women lawyers]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:21st-century Taiwanese women politicians]]
[[Category:Taiwanese human rights activists]]
[[Category:Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite]]