Roseanna Cunningham

Roseanna Cunningham

Roseanna Cunningham (born July 27, 1951 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Life

Cunningham grew up in Australia . She attended John Curtin High School in Fremantle and then the University of Western Australia , which she left with a bachelor's degree in politics. Cunningham returned to Scotland and worked for the SNP between 1977 and 1979. In 1982 she obtained a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Edinburgh and then worked as a solicitor in the Dumbarton district until 1986 , then in the Glasgow district until 1989.

Political career

1982 came Cunningham in the council elections for the Lothian region in the district of Haymarket / Tollcross, but lost significantly. In the general election in 1992 , she joined the SNP in the constituency of Perth and Kinross on, but lost the long-term constituency winner Nicholas Fairbairn of the Conservative Party . However, he died in 1995, which is why new elections were held in this constituency, which Cunningham won. In the following regular general election in 1997 , she entered for the newly formed constituency of Perth and won this too.

In the Scottish parliamentary elections in 1999 , she ran for the SNP in the Perth constituency , won the direct mandate and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament . In the shadow cabinet of the SNP she was designated as Minister of Justice. In the 2003 and 2007 general elections , Cunningham defended her constituency. As part of the cabinet reshuffle in 2009, Cunningham was appointed Secretary of the Environment. In the course of the constituency reform of 2011, the Perth constituency was abolished. Much of the area went into the newly created constituency of Perthshire South and Kinross-shire , for which Cunningham ran in the 2011 general election. She won a clear victory over the Conservative Party candidate. In the newly formed Salmond II cabinet, Cunningham holds the post of Secretary of State for Community Safety and Legal Affairs .

Web links

• Information on the website of the SNP
• Information on the Scottish Parliament website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Biographical information on the pages of the Scottish Parliament
3. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
4. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
5. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
6. ↑ Information on the pages of the Scottish Parliament
7. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
8. ↑ Salmond II Cabinet on the Scottish Parliament pages