Tran Minh Tiet
Vietnamese judge
Tran Minh Tiet or Trần Minh Tiết (December 28, 1922 – April 18, 1986) was a Minister of the Interior, and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, of the Republic of Vietnam.
Government service
Interior Minister
Tran Minh Tiet served as Minister of the Interior during the presidency of Ngo Dinh Diem (1954–1963), and so would sit in the South Vietnamese cabinet. In 1960 Diem set up a National Security Council, designed to regularly bring together "the General Staff, the Defense Staff, the Ministry of Interior," and other officials.
With regard to territorial administration, "the Ministry of Interior exercised supervision over questions of finance and supply." The Ministry's responsibilities likely ranged from issues involving police work and counterinsurgency, to civil administration of rural populations. The Interior Ministry indirectly affected land reform programs. Under Diem, an influx of army officers into the position of Province Chief across the South Vietnamese countryside unintentionally worked to weaken the civilian administration.
Chief Justice
In 1968 the National Assembly, meeting in Saigon and following the newly adopted Constitution, chose Tran Minh Tiet and eight others as the new Justices of the Supreme Court. Only "lawyers, prosecutors, and presiding judges" had been eligible. Of those chosen, only three including Tiet had received more than 100 Assembly votes. The Assembly members had so acted despite the fact that during 1967–1968 Tiet had on occasion "been openly critical of President Thieu and his administration".
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