Trix Heberlein


Trix Heberlein-Ruff is a Swiss politician of the Free Democratic Party.

Life and career

Heberlein attended primary school in Teufen, later cantonal school in St. Gallen and earned her Matura in 1961. She subsequently studied law at the University of Zurich and earned a license degree in 1965. Later she took the lawyer exam.
Heberlein was a cantonal councillor of Zurich from 1979 to 1991 and a communal councillor of her residence town Zumikon from 1985 to 1994. From 1991 to 2003, she was a member of the National Council which she chaired in 1999. Then she represented the canton of Zurich in the Council of States from 2003 to 2007. On December 20th, 2006, she announced she would retire by the end of her term.
From 1998 to 2014, Heberlein chaired the foundation that promotes organ donation. Since 1967 she has been married to lawyer Robert Heberlin, with whom she has two daughters.