Marie-Claude Najm (Arabic: ماري كلود نجم; born 6 April 1971) is a Lebanese academic who served as Minister of Justice from 2020 to 2021.
[1] She is closely related to the Saint Joseph University, where she was the director of the Center for Legal Studies in the Arab World ("CEDROMA") and is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Law as of 2022.
[4] She was one of the six female ministers in the Diab Government counting 20 ministries, which was viewed as a step in the right direction towards gender equality in Lebanon politics.
[6] Shortly after the 2020 Beirut explosions, on 10 August 2020, Najm announced her resignation from the government.
Her final act in Diab's government was to commission the Supreme Council of Lebanon, which is the country's top judicial body, to investigate the causes of the disaster, and thereby relieved the Military Tribunal of the task.