Jenni Minto

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Jenni Minto
MSP
Jenni Minto 2021.jpg
Affirming in 2021
Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Argyll and Bute
Assumed office
7 May 2021
Preceded byMichael Russell
Majority8,963
Personal details
Born1968 (age 53–54)[1]
Elgin, Scotland[2]
Political partyScottish National Party

Jennifer Margot Minto (born 1968) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Argyll and Bute since 2021.[3] She had been elected as her party's candidate for the election by local SNP members in November 2020.[4]

Prior to being elected as an MSP, her workplace experience after graduating from the University of Aberdeen included accountancy firm KPMG, and as a business executive at BBC Scotland in Glasgow. She later settled on the Isle of Islay, with management roles at the Islay Energy Trust and the Museum of Islay Life.[2]

She was educated at Madras College in St. Andrew's.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Statutory registers - Births - Search results, ScotlandsPeople
  2. ^ a b SNP reveals Argyll and Bute candidate for Holyrood poll, Ellis Butcher, Oban Times, 24 November 2020
  3. ^ "Argyll and Bute - Scottish Parliament constituency". BBC News. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  4. ^ Jenni Minto: SNP announce winner of race for Michael Russell's Holyrood seat, Xander Richards, The National, 18 November 2020
  5. ^ Horne, Marc (24 May 2021). "MSPs four times as likely to have been educated at private school". The Times. Retrieved 3 June 2021.

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Preceded by Member of the Scottish Parliament for Argyll and Bute
2021–present 		Incumbent


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