title: Margreeth de Boer
text: # Margreeth de Boer
  
  Margaretha "Margreeth" de Boer (Dutch pronunciation:; born 16 April 1939) is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA).
  
  ## Early life and education
  
  Margaretha de Boer was born on 16 April 1939 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She studied at the Social Academy.
  
  ## Political career
  
  De Boer is a member of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA). She was Queen's Commissioner of Drenthe (1993–1994), Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the First Kok cabinet (1994–1998), Member of the House of Representatives (1998–2001), Mayor of Leeuwarden (2001–2004), and Mayor of Hoogeveen (2010–2011).
  
  ## Decorations
  
  Honours :
  
  | Ribbon bar | Honour | Country | Date | Comment |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau | Netherlands | 30 October 1998 | |
  