9 years, from 1996 to 2005, she worked as a senior chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
From April 2005 to 2 April 2009 Zagipa coped with the post of the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
From 3 April 2009 to 10 January 2021, she was the Deputy of the Mazhilis, Member of the Committee on Legislation and Judicial and Legal Reform of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan.[6]
Also from 25 March 2016 to 12 June 2018, she was the ombudsman for the rights of the children in the Republic of Kazakhstan.[7]
She is married (her husband – Baliev Mukhtar Abzalovich), has four sons (Daniyar, Ernar, Aliyar, Nursultan), and two daughters (Aldara, Daria).
Her husband, Baliev Mukhtar Abzalovich, has been running a small business called an LLC "OASIS TAU ALMATY" since 2006.[9]
Her eldest son Daniyar is the head of "DL Construction" LLP, which is filing claims for allegedly violated rights of "Kcell", as well as cable TV operators.[10] Also, Daniyar is trying to force Kazakh radio stations to pay twice for the broadcast of foreign songs.
Scientific publications
1. The criterion of democracy (Z. Baliyeva, deputy of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan)[11]
2. Zagipa Baliyeva: "Kazgugrad grew before my eyes"[12]
3. "The people and the state are inseparable" (Z. Baliyeva, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan)[13]
4. Zagipa Baliyeva: "Observance of measure in everything is the art of the politician."[14]