[3][4] She was a teacher for 25 years, where she taught Science, Maths and ICT in many schools across the former Gwent LEA area.

German has three children by her previous marriage, all born and brought up in Newport and educated locally at schools in Caerleon.

In May 2010, the then Assembly Member for South Wales East, Mike German, her husband, was named to the House of Lords as a 'working peer' in the Dissolution Honours list.

Immediately after taking up her new position, German pledged to continue to campaign for the tolls at Severn Bridge to be reduced.

For the 2021 Senedd election, German was selected as the Lib Dem candidate for the Torfaen constituency.