Wang Ching-feng is a Taiwanese lawyer

Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

 and politician.

Wang graduated from the Taipei First Girls' High School

Taipei First Girls' High School

Taipei First Girls' High School is a prestigious Taiwanese high school, located in Zhongzheng District within Taipei City, with only the top 1% of scorers on the Basic Competence Test for Junior High School Students receiving admission.- Overview :The school was founded in 1904 and named as...

 and received her bachelor and master degrees in law from National Chengchi University

National Chengchi University

National Chengchi University is a prestigious public university at Muzha in Wenshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan. It is well-known for its concentration on the social sciences, law, commerce, communication, liberal arts and for its MBA programs....

. Wang has been working as a lawyer since graduation. Since 1987, she has been organising activities to give legal support to help Taiwanese comfort women

Comfort women

The term "comfort women" was a euphemism used to describe women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with numbers ranging from as low as 20,000 from some Japanese scholars to as high as 410,000 from some Chinese...

, child prostitutes

Prostitution of children

Prostitution of children or child prostitution is the commercial sexual exploitation of children in which a child performs the services of prostitution, for financial benefit. The term normally refers to prostitution by a minor, or person under the local age of majority...

, and rape

Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The...

 victims. She was nominated as a member of the Control Yuan

Control Yuan

The Control Yuan , one of the five branches of the Republic of China government in Taipei, is an investigatory agency that monitors the other branches of government...

 by then-President

President of the Republic of China

The President of the Republic of China is the head of state and commander-in-chief of the Republic of China . The Republic of China was founded on January 1, 1912, to govern all of China...

 Lee Teng-hui

Lee Teng-hui

Lee Teng-hui is a politician of the Republic of China . He was the 7th, 8th, and 9th-term President of the Republic of China and Chairman of the Kuomintang from 1988 to 2000. He presided over major advancements in democratic reforms including his own re-election which marked the first direct...

, serving in this position from April 1993 to October 1995.

In October 1995 Wang resigned her Control Yuan position and accepted the invitation from Chen Li-an

Chen Li-an

Chen Li-an , sometimes spelled Chen Lu-an, is an electrical engineer, mathematician and former Taiwanese politician.-Biography:Son of former Vice President Chen Tsyr-shiou and earned his masters' and Ph.D. in mathematics from New York University. He had a close friendship with Wang Yung-ching, a...

 to be his partner in their 1996 ROC Presidential Election campaign. They finished last among the four candidates, winning 9.98% of the vote.

In 2004, as an independent

Independent (politician)

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, Wang served as a member in the highly controversial 3-19 Shooting Investigation Committee

3-19 shooting incident

The 3-19 shooting incident was an assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu while they were campaigning in Tainan on March 19, 2004, the day before Taiwan's presidential election...

 organised by the pan-blue coalition

Pan-Blue Coalition

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 after its loss in the 2004 ROC Presidential election. In 2005 Wang secured a seat in the soon-to-be-defunct National Assembly of the Republic of China

National Assembly of the Republic of China

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 after the "150 persons union led by Jhang Ya Jhong", her recommending party, won 1.68% vote in the 2005 Republic of China National Assembly election and thereby secured five seats. Wang subsequently declined the offer before her inauguration.

Wang was nominated by President Ma Ying-jeou

Ma Ying-jeou

Ma Ying-jeou is the 12th term and current President of the Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, and the Chairman of the Kuomintang Party, also known as the Chinese Nationalist Party. He formerly served as Justice Minister from 1993 to 1996, Mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006, and Chairman...

 to be Minister of Justice

Ministry of Justice (Republic of China)

The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of China is a ministerial level governmental body of the Executive Yuan. It is responsible for carrying out various judicial functions in the Republic of China .-Organization:...

 after he won the 2008 ROC Presidential Election. On March 10, 2010, Wang announced that she is in favour of the eventual abolition of the death penalty; she emphasised that she would not allow any executions during her tenure. Her speech aroused public protests, led by relatives of murder victims, such the entertainer Pai Ping-ping

Pai Ping-ping

Pai Ping-ping is a Taiwanese singer, actress, media personality and social activist.-Career:Born to an impoverished family in Keelung, Pai dropped out of formal education in her teenage years. In 1973 she won a prize in a singing contest held by Taiwan Television and following this success she...

(whose her daughter was kidnapped and murdered in 1997). There were calls for her to step down. Wang quit her ministerial position the next day.