Editing Annette Lu (section)

{{Short description|Taiwanese politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Annette Lu<br />{{small|''Lu Hsiu-lien''}}
| native_name         = {{nobold|呂秀蓮}}
| native_name_lang    = zh-tw
| image               = 呂秀蓮副總統 1.jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 2005
| nationality         = [[Taiwanese people|Taiwanese]]
| order               = 8th
| office              = Vice President of the Republic of China
| term_start          = 20 May 2000
| term_end            = 20 May 2008
| president           = [[Chen Shui-bian]]
| predecessor         = [[Lien Chan]]
| successor           = [[Vincent Siew]]
| office1             = [[Chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party|Chair of Democratic Progressive Party]]
| term_label1         = Acting
| term_start1         = 8 December 2005
| term_end1           = 15 January 2006
| predecessor1        = [[Su Tseng-chang]]
| successor1          = [[Yu Shyi-kun]]
| office2             = 10th [[Mayor of Taoyuan|Magistrate of Taoyuan]]
| term_start2         = 28 March 1997
| term_end2           = 20 May 2000
| predecessor2        = Liau Pen-yang (acting)<br/>[[Liu Pang-yu]]
| successor2          = Hsu Ying-shen (acting)<br/>[[Eric Chu]]
| order3              = [[Member of the Legislative Yuan]]
| term_start3         = 1 February 1993
| term_end3           = 31 January 1996
| constituency3       = Taoyuan County constituency
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1944|6|7|df=y}}
| birth_place         = Tōen Town, [[Shinchiku Prefecture]], Japanese Taiwan (now [[Taoyuan District]], Taoyuan City, Taiwan)
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = [[Democratic Progressive Party]] (after 1986)
| otherparty          = {{ubl|
* [[Formosa Alliance]] (after 2018)
}}
| education           = [[National Taiwan University]] ([[LL.B.|LLB]])<br />[[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]] ([[LL.M.|LLM]])<br /> [[Harvard University]] ([[LL.M.|LLM]])
}}
{{Infobox Chinese
| t = 呂秀蓮
| p = Lǚ Xiùlián
| w = Lü³ Hsiu⁴-lien²
| poj = Lū Siù-liân
| s = 吕秀莲
}}

'''Annette Lu Hsiu-lien''' ({{zh|c=呂秀蓮|first=t|p=Lǚ Xiùlián|poj=Lū Siù-liân}}; born 7 June 1944) is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer. A feminist active in the [[tangwai movement]], she joined the [[Democratic Progressive Party]] (DPP) in 1990, and was elected to the [[Legislative Yuan]] in 1992. Subsequently, she served as [[Mayor of Taoyuan|Taoyuan County Magistrate]] between 1997 and 2000, and was [[Vice President of the Republic of China|vice president of the Republic of China]] ([[Taiwan]]) from 2000 to 2008, under President [[Chen Shui-bian]].

Before entering politics, Lu graduated from [[National Taiwan University]] and earned law degrees from the [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]] and from [[Harvard University]]. She announced her intentions to run for the presidency on 6 March 2007, but withdrew to support eventual DPP nominee [[Frank Hsieh]]. Lu ran again in [[2012 Republic of China presidential election|2012]], but withdrew for a second time, ceding the nomination to DPP chairwoman [[Tsai Ing-wen]].{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} 

Lu lost the DPP's Taipei mayoral nomination to [[Pasuya Yao]] in 2018, and stated that she would leave the party. However, by the time Lu announced in September 2019 that she would contest the [[2020 Taiwan presidential election|2020 presidential election]] on behalf of the [[Formosa Alliance]], she was still a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.