Christian Heinz is the Hessian Minister of Justice and for the Rule of Law. He has served as a member of the Hessian State Parliament since 2010, and a deputy member of the Bundesrat since 2024.  Minister Heinz studied law at the University of Mainz.  After completing a legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Wiesbaden. in 2002, he joined the Hessian civil service, working at the Hessian State Chancellery and the Hessian Ministry of the Interior, among state agencies.