Ms. Elsie Leung Oi Sie was the first Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong SAR and was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 2002. She was educated in Hong Kong, passed her Law Society Qualifying Examination in 1967 and graduated with a LLM degree from HKU in 1988, the first time the degree was awarded by the University.

As Secretary for Justice, she headed the Department of Justice from 1997 to 2005. She was, during the same period, a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. From 2006 to 2018, she was the Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Basic Law Committee under the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the PRC. Ms. Leung has been active in the legal profession and the community at large. She is also a practising lawyer, a Notary Public, and a China Appointed Attesting Officer.