Tôn Nữ Thị Ninh was born on October 30, 1947, in Huế city,Thừa Thiên-Huế province, Vietnam.

[1] She began her career as an interpreter for figures such as Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, General Vo Nguyen Giap, and French President Francois Mitterrand.

[7] After her retirement from politics, she involved in the creation of the University of Trí Việt, a private non-profit institution, and served as its founding President.

[9] In her time as the Deputy Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee, she was very critical of the United States accusations on the problem of human rights in Vietnam, citing the country's sovereignty over its legal process and people: "We have some naughty and stubborn children and grandchildren in the family, so we punish them behind closed door, and of course, we punish them our ways.

[10] In her letter to the editors of The New York Times, she wrote: "While Mr. Kerry has expressed remorse over his role in the Thanh Phong massacre, a leadership position at a university with the status and ambitions of FUV, a joint American-Vietnamese venture set to start up in the fall of 2017, should not be viewed as an opportunity to atone for past wrongdoings.

[12][1] Tôn Nữ Thị Ninh is married to a lecturer at the Ho Chi Minh City Pedagogical University in 1982.