Vickie Chapman

Vickie Chapman MP

Deputy Leader of the Opposition (SA)
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 February 2013
Leader	Steven Marshall
Preceded by	Steven Marshall
In office 30 March 2006 – 4 July 2009
Leader	Iain Evans Martin Hamilton-Smith
Preceded by	Iain Evans
Succeeded by	Isobel Redmond
Member of the South Australian Parliament for Bragg
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 February 2002
Preceded by	Graham Ingerson
Majority	18.7%
Personal details
Born	Vickie Ann Chapman (1957-06-21) 21 June 1957 (age 59) Kangaroo Island, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Liberal Party of Australia (SA)
Relations	Ted Chapman (father)
Education	University of Adelaide
Profession	Barrister

Vickie Ann Chapman (born 21 June 1957) is an Australian politician, representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Bragg for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2002 election. She was Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 30 March 2006 until 4 July 2009 and returned to that position on 4 February 2013. She is also the Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for State Development, having gained the extra portfolio of State Development in a cabinet reshuffle on 13 January 2016.

Chapman was born in Kangaroo Island. One of seven children, Chapman attended the Kangaroo Island Parndana Area School, and following the death of her mother at age 12, she later attended Pembroke School in Adelaide. She studied a law degree at the University of Adelaide and graduated in 1979 as a barrister.

Chapman's father, Ted, was a member of the Liberal and Country League and then the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in the South Australian House of Assembly. A Liberal moderate, Ted was a member of the Steele Hall-led Liberal Movement faction in the 1970s and Agriculture Minister in the David Tonkin government. As a young girl, Chapman assisted her father in Liberal campaigns for office.