[1] Brigitte Anne Francine Klinkert was born on 22 July 1956 in Colmar, Alsace, France.

[3] Klinkert started her career as municipal councilor of Colmar in 1983, a position she will keep until 2020.

She became President of the Haut-Rhin department in 2017, the first woman elected in that position, she left the position to enter the Castex government in July 2020, as Minister delegate for Integration under the direction of Minister of Labour, Élisabeth Borne.

[4] After being a member of UDF from 1998 to 2002, Klinkert joined UMP then, after the party changed its named, LR in 2015 before leaving in 2019.

[7] In 2021 Klinkert received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.