Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development
In office 17 February 2020 – 24 January 2022
First Minister
Nicola Sturgeon
Preceded by
Ben Macpherson
Succeeded by
Neil Gray
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Fife and Glenrothes
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2016
Preceded by
Tricia Marwick
Majority
10,234 (31.3%)
Personal details
Born
Jennifer Madeleine Gilruth
1984 (age 39–40) Aberdeen, Scotland
Political party
Scottish National Party
Spouse
Kezia Dugdale
(m. 2022)
Alma mater
University of Glasgow University of Strathclyde
Website
www.jennygilruthmsp.scot
Jennifer Madeleine Gilruth (born 1984) is a Scottish politician who has served as the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills since 2023. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Mid Fife and Glenrothes since 2016.[1]
In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Gilruth was elected as a member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid Fife and Glenrothes constituency. She sat on the SNP's backbenches and served successively in the parliament's education, health, justice and social security committees. On 17 February 2020, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon appointed Gilruth to the Scottish Government as the minister for culture, Europe and international development. She was later reshuffled as the transport minister and oversaw the transition of the public ownership of ScotRail. Following Humza Yousaf's appointment as first minister of Scotland, a campaign Gilruth endorsed, she was subsequently appointed to cabinet as the education secretary.
^"Mid Fife and Glenrothes". BBC News. 6 May 2016. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017.
"Who is JennyGilruth? Meet Scotland's Transport Minister dealing with a ScotRail crisis". The Courier. Retrieved 9 June 2022. Gilruth, Jenny (27 November...
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respective roles as the constitution secretary and rural affairs secretary. JennyGilruth was promoted to cabinet as education secretary, along with Màiri McAllan...
Glenrothes MSP JennyGilruth, a member of the SNP, and the two had started dating around four months earlier. In June 2022, Dugdale married Gilruth in a private...
responsible for all levels of education in Scotland. The incumbent is JennyGilruth, who assumed office on 29 March 2023 and was reappointed on 8 May 2024...
Gray, was promoted to government as the wellbeing economy secretary. JennyGilruth and Màiri McAllan were promoted to cabinet as education secretary and...
education is the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, currently JennyGilruth MSP of the Scottish National Party. University status in Scotland and...
February 2024 – present Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills JennyGilruth MSP March 2023 – present Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform...
representation". The Guardian. "Kezia Dugdale in relationship with SNP MSP JennyGilruth". BBC News. 15 July 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2018. Multimedia, Kris...
with colourful fizz". STV. Retrieved 9 July 2023. "Congratulations as JennyGilruth and Kezia Dugdale marry". Holyrood. 13 June 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2023...
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Secretary and leaves the Civil Service. Scotland's Minister for Transport, JennyGilruth, announces plans to nationalise the overnight Caledonian Sleeper train...
welcomed by the ASLEF, RMT and TSSA unions. The Minister for Transport, JennyGilruth, confirmed in February 2022 that ScotRail services would return to public...
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appointment to the Scottish Cabinet, 17 February 2020. (From left to right; JennyGilruth, herself, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and Fiona Hyslop.)...
for Transport and was replaced by JennyGilruth, the Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development. Gilruth was succeeded by Neil Gray who was...
at New College, Edinburgh Richard Gadd – writer, actor and comedian JennyGilruth – politician Neil A. R. Gow – professor of Mircobiology Sir Edmund Hirst...
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2023. The station was officially opened on Thursday 2 February 2023 by JennyGilruth, the Minister for Transport and pupils from Croy Primary School, Highland...
Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Scottish Parliament. Retrieved 17 May 2021. "JennyGilruth". Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Scottish Parliament. Retrieved...
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Parliament (MSPs). Scottish Parliament. Retrieved 15 February 2023. "JennyGilruth". Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Scottish Parliament. Retrieved...
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