Catherine Génisson (born 22 April 1949) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who represented the Pas-de-Calais department in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2011 and later in the French Senate from 2011 to 2017.
[1][2] The daughter of painter Claude Génisson [fr],[3] Génisson was first elected to the French assembly in 1997 and was reelected in 2002 and 2007.
[2] Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2008 convention in Reims, Génisson publicly endorsed Martine Aubry as candidate to succeed François Hollande at the party's leadership.
[4] In the party's 2011 primaries, she endorsed Aubry as its candidate for the 2012 presidential election.
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