Maria Johanna (Marieke) Sanders-ten Holte (born 7 November 1941) is a Dutch former principal and politician for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
After the Municipal Lyceum in Emmen, she studied English at the University of Groningen and literary theory at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
From 1992 to 1994 she served as head of the central office of contract activities at the Inholland University of Applied Sciences in Diemen.
[3][4] Sanders-ten Holte was subsequently appointed Advisor to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages from 2004 to 2019.
[6] Sanders-ten Holte married Pieter Sanders on 18 March 1967 in Emmen, and has two children.