Editing Leanna Walker (section)

==Early Career==

Following graduation, Walker was employed by the Department for International Trade, where she worked for a decade, before leaving after the legalisation of openly capitalist parties. She joined the Liberal Party shortly after its creation in 1993, and was soon after elected as a Member of the Yervian Parliament for Trenby and Lottera, a rural constituency. 

While in the Yervian Parliament, Walker was a strong proponent of allowing farmers to trade directly with foreign entities. She sponsored a bill which would have allowed farmers to sell their products directly to foreign companies rather than to the government trade department. The legislation was passed by the parliament, but struck down by the Supreme Court as it violated federal restrictions.

She remained in the Yervian Parliament until 2006 when she was elected to the Federal Parliament for the Mid-Yervia constituency (which included Trenby and Lottera). She again pushed for direct trading between producers of goods and foreign companies, however the communist government did not support her attempts. In 2010, when the Liberal Party became the main opposition, she became her party's International Trade spokesperson.

In 2014, she did not run for re-election, and instead began her presidential campaign. She was elected president on the 2nd June 2015.